We Could Use A Saint George, Martyr, And Slayer Of Dragons, Today

St George's Legend is just that, Have You Read It!?

Nota Bene: This report is partly taken from a post from my website published April 23rd, 2017, at the height of the NeoCon generated frenzy to “regime change” Bashar Assad away for allegedly “gassing his own people”; a claim that was ultimately refuted and the “gassing” pinned on MI6 and ‘Murican special ops.

“St. George is usually represented as killing a Dragon ; and where the representation is complete, there is also given the figure of a Princess, whom the Saint thus saves from being devoured by the monster. This favourite subject of both sacred and profane Art is purely symbolical, and is of Byzantine origin. It signifies the victory won over the devil, by the Martyr's courageous profession of faith; the Princess represents Alexandra, who was converted by witnessing the Saint's heroic patience under his sufferings. Neither the "Acts" of St. George nor the Hymns of the Greek Liturgy, allude to the Martyr's having slain a Dragon and rescued a Princess. It was not till after the 14th century, that this fable was known in the West; and it arose from the putting a material interpretation on the emblems wherewith the Greeks honoured St. George, and which were introduced among us by the Crusaders.” - Dom Prosper Gueranger

Blessed Second Sunday After Easter. Today is also Saint George’s Day, 23 April, and was ordered to be kept as a lesser holiday as early as 1222. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries St. George's Day remained a holiday of obligation for English Catholics. Saint George is the subject of many legends involving his slaying of a dragon after making the sign of the cross and converting the entire village that the dragon had tormented.

According to tradition, he was martyred around 300, and numerous sixth-century inscriptions that mention St. George still exist, including one at a monastery at Ezra in Syria from 515, another at a church in Horvath Hesheq in northern Israel dated to 519, and one more at a church in Shakka in Syria from 535. St. George's in Ezra is thought to be the oldest building in Syria which has been continuously a site of Christian worship. Saint George is the patron saint of England.

Dom  Prosper  Gueranger  tells  us  of  the  Glorious  St  George.

The  Roman  Liturgy  gives  no  Lessons  on  the  life  of  St.  George;  but,  in  their  stead,  reads  to  us  a  passage  from  St.  Cyprian,  on  the  sufferings  of  the  Martyrs.  This  derogation  from  the  general  rule  dates  from  the  5th  century.  At  a  celebrated  Council  held  in  Rome,  in  the  year  496,  Pope  St.  Gelasius  drew  up,  for  the  guidance  of  the Faithful,  a  list  of  books,  which  might  or  might  not  be  read  without  danger.  Among  the  number  of  those  that  were  to  be  avoided,  he  mentioned  the  "  Acts  of  St.  George,  as  having  been  compiled  by  one,  who  besides  being  an  ignorant  man,  was  also  a  heretic.  In  the  East,  however,  there  were  other  "Acts"  of  the  holy  Martyr,  totally  different  from  those  current  in  Rome;  but  they  were  not  known  in  that  City.  The  cultus  of  St.  George  lost  nothing,  in  the  Holy  City,  by  this  absence  of  a  true  Legend.  From  a  very  early  period,  a  church  was  built  in  his  honour;  it  was  one  of  those  that  were  selected  as  Stations,  and  gave  a  Title  to  a  Cardinal;  it  exists  to  this  day,  and  it  is  called  Saint  George  in  Velabro  (the  Veil  of  Gold).  

To all those cheering The West's attempts to "regime change" Bashar Assad away by lobbing Cruise missiles at him; funding Al Queda & ISIS and aiding those inside Syria- Mohammedans - trying to bring Assad down, note the location of the 3 church's that house St. George's relics and in the enclosed photos that they remaining standing, intact and active. ISIS or a Muslim regime will do to these what they did to similar structures that USED to be in Iraq, until Saddam was "regime changed".

But, hey, USA! USA!

Let us compare this form of fake nationalism to the utter devotion the Italians and the English gave to Saint George. A devotion so great that under his standard many battles were fought and won!

The  Republic  of  Genoa  chose him  for  its  Patron ;  and  Venice  honoured  him  as  its special  Protector,  after  St.  Mark.  But  nowhere  was St.  George  so  enthusiastically  loved  as  in  England. Not  only  was  it  decreed  in  a  Council  held  at  Oxford, in  the  year  1222,  that  the  Feast  of  the  Great  Martyr should  be  observed  as  one  of  Obligation;  not only  was  devotion  to  the  valiant  Soldier  of  Christ encouraged,  throughout  Great  Britain,  by  the  first Norman  Kings; — but  there  are  documents  anterior to  the  invasion  of  William  the  Conqueror,  which prove  that  St.  George  was  invoked  as  the  special Patron  of  England  even  so  far  back  as  the  9th century.  Edward  III  did  but  express  the  sentiment of  the  country  when  he  put  the  Order  of  the  Garter, which  he  instituted  in  1330,  under  the  patronage  of the  Warrior  Saint.  In  Germany,  King  Frederic  III. founded  the  Order  of  St.  George  in  the  year  1468. 

The Order of The Garter is in fact, the oldest Chivalry Order remaining in England and is yearly celebrated with a procession led by the Royal family! From their official site we learn…

Today, the Order includes The King, who is Sovereign of the Garter, several senior Members of the Royal Family, and twenty-four knights chosen in recognition of their work. Knights of the Garter are chosen personally by the Sovereign to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally. These have included Marshal of the RAF, Lord Stirrup, and former Prime Ministers Sir John Major and Sir Winston Churchill.

The patron saint of the Order is St George (patron saint of soldiers and also of England)  and if there are vacancies in the Order, appointments are announced on St George's Day (23 April). The spiritual home of the Order is St George's Chapel, Windsor. Every knight is required to display a banner of his arms in the Chapel, together with a helmet, crest and sword and an enamelled stallplate.

Here in the United States, St George is still honored with being the titular saint of a chivalric order established for boys to replace the gone homo-woke Boy Scouts: The Troops of Saint George.

So today, in the era of men becoming neo-dragons by pretending to be women let us raise a glass, say a Memorare - per St Bernard the patron saint of chivalry and the Knights Templar - and honor the Legend of Saint George!