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Saint George has proved a popular choice and with a new release of properties coming this January, house-hunters should be aware that time is of the essence.
Saint George was executed on the 23rd April 303 AD.
Desperate to convert one of his finest soldiers into worshipping the Roman gods, Diocletian offered
Saint George gifts of land and money, but to no avail.
Top ten: Sir Winston Churchill, 30 per cent;
Saint George, 21 per cent; Lord Nelson, 10 per cent; William Shakespeare, eight per cent; Robin Hood, four per cent; Bobby Moore, four per cent; Queen Victoria, three per cent; Sir Isaac Newton, two per cent; Henry VIII, two per cent; Charles Dickens, one per cent.
In the thirteenth century, the Italian bishop Jacobus de Voragine recorded the story of
Saint George and the dragon in his book The Golden Legend.
Yet, despite his accomplishments,
Saint George still had black blood coursing through his veins--and no one was going to let him forget it.
England and
Saint George!" (3.1.34), but while the play stresses George's saintly patronage over the Harfleur battlefield,
Saint George is not mentioned on the eve of the more momentous Agincourt battle.
In the Middle Ages, when plays were still performed in churches, the life of
Saint George was a popular dramatic subject.
Margaret Wade Labarge in Henry V: The Cautious Conqueror (1975) says that one of the chronicles reported that the French soldiers could see
Saint George above the English forces.(2) James Hamilton Wylie, in his three volume The Reign of Henry the Fifth (1919), reminding England of saints to whom the nation owed praise for the victory, writes, `Next God she must thank her patron saints Our Lady and St.