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Saint George: tags: [christianity] [heraldry]

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a Christian saint who, despite being a hero for slaying an evil dragon, was killed by the Romans for not recanting his faith. In heraldry he is honored with a red cross on a white field, as on England's flag.

^{painting : (circa 1485)}
^{http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/54965/saint-george-and-the-dragon?ctx=c4d16aa5-e4a1-435b-a374-5531b91401d2&idx=83}
^{photo: by THOR (Summer Sky in Southsea England) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 )]}
^{https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Flag_and_St_Georges_Cross.jpg}

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“It is throwin away my time I have been all my life,” says he, “livin’ with you at all, and stuck at a loom, nothin’ but a poor waiver, when it is Saint George or the Dhraggin I ought to be, which is two of the siven champions of Christendom.”

Humours of Irish Life: Samuel Lover. The Little Weaver of Duleek Gate.

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George turned, and, with one indignant blow, knocked Legree flat upon his face; and, as he stood over him, blazing with wrath and defiance, he would have formed no bad personification of his great namesake triumphing over the dragon.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin

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the chime of the bells in the church of Saint George.

James Joyce. Ulysses.