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Saint George (Ancient Greek: Γεώργιος, romanized: Geṓrgios; [note 1] died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army .
St George the Martyr is a church in the historic Borough district of south London. It lies within the modern-day London Borough of Southwark , on Borough High Street at the junction with Long Lane , Marshalsea Road , and Tabard Street .
St. George with the enthroned Virgin Mary and Child, St. Theodore and angels, Saint Catherine's Monastery, late 6th century.. Aloysius Lippomani, the 16th century Bishop of Bergamo, was one of the first people to undertake a serious study of Saint George.
The St. George club coincidentally played their inaugural New South Wales Rugby League first grade match on St. George's Day, 23 April 1921 at the Sydney Sports Ground in Australia. [27] In Newfoundland and Labrador, St. George's Day is a provincial holiday, usually observed on the Monday nearest 23 April.
Southwark St George the Martyr was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England and part of the ancient Borough of Southwark.In 1855 the parish vestry became a local authority within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The sacred relic of Saint George was one of the most famous of relics, after the True Cross and Holy Lance, and was the arm of the Saint George (d. 303), reputedly ordered killed by the Roman Emperor Diocletian for his failure to renounce his faith in Christ.
Dean Prior has a Grade I listed church dedicated to St George the Martyr, [3] [4] where the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick was vicar from 1629 to 1646 and 1660 to 1674 [5] and is buried. [6] A gothic church, built in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, it is made of stone rubble with granite dressings.
British recruitment poster from World War I, featuring St. George and the Dragon.. Traces of the cult of St George predate the Norman Conquest, in 9th-century liturgy used at Durham Cathedral, in a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon martyrology, and in dedications to Saint George at Fordington, Dorset, at Thetford, Norfolk and Doncaster.