St. George

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St. George [1]

The patron saint of chivalry and of England; adopted as such in the reign of Edward III.; believed to have been born in Armorica, and to have suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303; he is represented as mounted on horseback and slaying a Dragon ( q. v .), conceived as an incarnation of the evil one.

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