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St. George - The Pork Salesman who became England's Patron Saint |
 | | Thus, when the legend of St George began to take shape, sometime in the late 4th or early 5th century, the most consistent refrain in a story otherwise notable for its variations, was that George had "stood up to" the dastardly Diocletian. |
| | The earliest extant evidence we have for the legend (not George himself!) are fragments from a reused parchment (or "palimpsest") dated to the 5th century (the so-called Decretum Gelasianum). |
| | It is worth noting that in the late 4th century, in Milan, bishop Ambrose, gray eminence and spiritual director of the imperial family, had pioneered the political value of "saints' bones" in his power struggle with the Empress Justina. |
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