The death of Georgius, commonly called of Cappadocia, 24 December, 361 AD. Arian intruding Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt (356–361). Murdered by a mob incensed by his tyranny, who broke into the prison where he was being held awaiting trial and tore him to pieces. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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