The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . >rd April)According to legend he was born ofChristian parents, in the reign of Diocletian,in Cappadocia, and became a tribune in thearmy. While travelling through Lybia, hecame to a place where a monstrous dragon,living in a marsh, ravaged the people were compelled to offer, first sheep,. - s THE SAINTS IN ART 85 and, when these were exhausted, children, toappease it. These were taken by lot, and,when at last the lot fell on the Kingsdaughter, Cleodolinda, the people insistedthat she should be
The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . >rd April)According to legend he was born ofChristian parents, in the reign of Diocletian,in Cappadocia, and became a tribune in thearmy. While travelling through Lybia, hecame to a place where a monstrous dragon,living in a marsh, ravaged the people were compelled to offer, first sheep,. - s THE SAINTS IN ART 85 and, when these were exhausted, children, toappease it. These were taken by lot, and,when at last the lot fell on the Kingsdaughter, Cleodolinda, the people insistedthat she should be sacrificed. So she wasled out as a victim, to the dragon, and shewept. Now St. George happened to see her,as he passed by. She bade him hurry on,lest he should perish too, but he, making thesign of the cross, attacked the dragon, and,after a fierce combat, pierced it with hislance. Then he bound the dragon fast withthe girdle of the princess, and they led itafter them into the city. When he told thepeople that he had conquered through themight of his God, the king, and many thou-sands were converted, and baptised. Duringthe persecutions of Diocletian, St. George wassubmitted to the most cruel tortures ; he wasbound to a cross, and torn with sharp nails ;he was burnt and beaten, and given a deadlypoison to drink, but, making the sign of thecross, he remained unhurt. Many othermira
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