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	Encyclopedia: St. George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The iconic image of St. George on horseback trampling the serpent-dragon beneath him is considered to be similar to these pre-Christian representations of Sabazios.
		On the other hand, the tale of George and the Dragon is widely considered among secular historians to share a common theme with the ancient Greek myth of Ethiopian princess Andromeda and her savior and later husband Perseus, slayer of the gorgon Medusa.
		George's cross) is a white flag with a red cross, frequently borne by entities over which he is patron (e.g.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/St.-George (1737 words)

	St. George: England's Patron Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the apocryphal Acts of St George current in various versions in the Eastern Church from the fifth century, George held the rank of tribune in the Roman army and was beheaded by Diocletian for protesting against the Emperor's persecution of Christians.
		The banner of St George, the red cross of a martyr on a white background, was adopted for the uniform of English soldiers possibly in the reign of Richard 1, and later became the flag of England and the White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
		St George is also, of course, venerated in the Church of England, by the Orthodox churches and by the Churches of the Near East and Ethiopia.
	www.britannia.com /history/stgeorge.html (2171 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. George
		Still less is St. George to be considered, as suggested by Gibbon, Vetter, and others, a legendary double of the disreputable bishop, George of Cappadocia, the Arian opponent of St. Athanasius.
		Again, as Bury points out, "the connection of St. George with a dragon-slaying legend does not relegate him to the region of the myth, for over against the fabulous Christian dragon-slayer Theodore of the Bithynian Heraclaea, we can set Agapetus of Synnada and Arsacius, who though celebrated as dragon-slayers, were historical persons".
		The chapel dedicated to St. George in Windsor Caste was built to be the official sanctuary of the order, and a badge or jewel of St. George slaying the dragon was adopted as part of the insignia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06453a.htm (1859 words)

	History of Windsor St George's school – of choristers ancient and modern
		Samuel Pepys visited St George’s early in 1666 and wrote that he was much impressed with the choir but that the choir of St Paul’s had met with his severe criticism.
		Maria Hackett paid another of her visits to St George’s and commented that although the boys were being well looked after in the new choir house, their education left much to be desired.
		He was previously on the staff of St George’s school during the 1980s so is well acquainted with the school and its special role as a choir school.
	www.ofchoristers.net /Chapters/Windsor.htm (5126 words)

	Knights of St. George -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All of them have been dedicated to the (Religious zeal; willingness to serve God) veneration of (Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)) St.
		George of (additional info and facts about Lydda) Lydda was a (One who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion) martyr, victim to the Roman Emperor (additional info and facts about Diocletian) Diocletian's persecution of Christians in the (additional info and facts about fourth century) fourth century.
		Order of St. George - founded by Emperor (additional info and facts about Frederick III) Frederick III of (A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century) Austria in 1464
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kn/knights_of_st._george.htm (386 words)

	St. George, Patron Saint of Scouting
		They (the knights of the Round Table) had as their patron saint St. George, because he was the only one of all the saints who was a horseman.
		George resolved that she should not die, and so he went out and attacked the dragon, who lived in a swamp close by, and killed him.
		The feast of St. George falls in May. That date is celebrated by the Ukrainian "plastuny" as both the St. George’s day and the Festival of Spring—the yearly beginning of the camping and hiking season.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /stgeorge.htm (1312 words)

	St. George on the Lake
		George Vogt, at whose office we met in the Granite Building, was appointed President, assisted by Anne Rendsland as Secretary: and Treasurer Mrs.
		The work was begun on St. George's Day (April 23, 1907), the first shovel of dirt being turned over by me, the day being cold, gray, windy.
		The beautiful statue of St. George on the altar was donated by the Knights of St. George of St. Michael's Church, through the intercession of William Gropp.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /id554.htm (1014 words)

	St. George - Patron Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 'Scouting for Boys', Baden-Powell referred to the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian Legend and to St. George who was their Patron Saint.
		It is thought that St. George came from Cappadocia in Asia Minor and lived at the time of the Roman Emperor, Diocletian, AD 245 to 313, and became a high ranking cavalry officer in the Army of Rome.
		The legend of St. George, which is an allegory illustrating the triumph of good over evil, tells how he rode into the city of Silene in what is now Libya, to find the people terrorised by a dragon which was fed daily with one of the citizens.
	www.btinternet.com /~fourthgill.seascouts/stgeorge.htm (406 words)

	St. George - Olga's Gallery
		George arrived at the moment when the dragon was about to swallow the king’s daughter, princess Sabra.
		Later George fell the victim of Diocletian’s persecutions and was martyred: after surviving being burnt, boiled and crushed under a wheel, he was beheaded.
		Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges, Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator).
	www.abcgallery.com /saints/george.html (261 words)

	A brief history of the Knights of the Temple and of the Preceptory and Priory of St. George Aboyne
		The first elected Grand Master was William St. Clair of Roslin, formerly the hereditary Grand Master Mason of Scotland (previous to the formation of Grand Lodge) and a Templar as well: The St. Clairs were one of the oldest Scottish families.
		Further examination of the St. Clairs reveals that Templar iconography was in frequent use by the family throughout the centuries, and that they had an active interest in Masonry before and after the Schaw Statutes, known to have heralded the advent of Masonry as is known today.
		The St George Lodge was in turn responsible for Initiating sufficient candidates to enable the Aboyne Lodge to be raised in 1808: This Lodge was subsequently disbanded in 1837 according to Grand Lodge records.
	www.cix.co.uk /~craftings/200years.htm (9159 words)

	The Cross of St George
		St Thomas of Canterbury was the English patron saint, and the first known appearance of the banner of St George was in 1300 at the siege of Caerlaverock.
		Although both Edward I and Edward II flew the St George banner in their wars against Scotland, it was not until the reign of Edward III that St George became the Patron Saint of England.
		In 1364 the Teutonic Knights quarrelled with the English Crusaders over the use of the St George banner, and this was repeated with the Earl of Derby in 1391.
	www.baronage.co.uk /2002c/stgeorge.html (436 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Orders of St. George
		Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.
		George of Lydda, a martyr of the persecution of Diocletian in the fourth century, is one of those military saints whom Byzantine iconography represented as a horseman armed cap-à-pie, like the flower of the Roman armies after the military reform of Justinian in the sixth century.
		It was succeeded by a secular Confraternity of St. George founded under the Emperor Maximilian I with the approbation of Alexander VI in 1494, which likewise disappeared, in the disturbances of the sixteenth century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13350a.htm (569 words)

	Knights of St. George
		The Knights of St. George came to Luhtala during the Rebellion as part of the invasion force from the Solomani Confederation.
		The Knights are used as commandos and as the elite strike force of the Luhtalian military.
		Knight training consists of physical training to improve the body, religious training to improve the soul and martial training to enable the Knights to protect their charges.
	www.chara.gsu.edu /~lewis/bard/dani/dani4003.html (1494 words)

	St George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		St George is the patron saint of England.
		In this version the St George came from Coventry and the dragon was variously in Egypt or places in England.
		St George's Day is 23rd April, and on that day Scouts remind themselves of their Promise and the Scout Law".
	www.greatholmscouts.org.uk /st_george.htm (362 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 23
		George and Demetrius, "the martyr knights," were seen helping the Franks at the Battle of Antioch in 1098, and it appears probable that the crusaders, in particular King Richard I, who placed himself and his soldiers under George's protection, returned from the East with a belief in the power of George's intercession.
		In art, George is portrayed as a youth in armor, often mounted, killing or having killed a dragon with his lance (sometimes broken) or sword (Tabor).
		Saint George is the patron of England, the Order of the Garter, Boy Scouts, the Italian calvary (which had retained a devotion to the holy knight), chivalry, Istanbul, Aragon, Portugal, Germany, Genoa, and Venice.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0423.htm (2570 words)

	St. George – Patron Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Suffice it to say that St. George the Martyr, of whom I write, lived and died, long before the other George, by nefarious methods, rose in favor and prominence at the court of the Roman empire.
		Of the early years of St. George little is known, excepting that, in a patrician home, amid the beautiful scenes and associations just mentioned, he was lovingly brought up to manhood, fully embued with a noble Christian spirit, under the care of an affectionate mother.
		While in the peaceful encounters of the knights of old "St. George for Merry England" was the cry.
	www.ocii.com /~stgeorge/page6.html (551 words)

	St George
		St George is honoured in the Catholic Church as one of the most illustrious martyrs of Christ.
		It is related in the life of St. Theodorus of Siceon that he served God a long while in a chapel which bore the name of St. George, had a particular devotion to this glorious martyr, and strongly recommended the same to Mauritius when he foretold him the empire.
		Fortunatus of Poitiers wrote an epigram on a church of St. George, in Mentz.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/GEORGE.htm (1044 words)

	Knights v Dragons - Round 21 NRL 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Timana Tahu of the Knights and Jamie Ainscough had an intriguing running battle one which ended in Ainscough being cautioned for a high shot on Tahu which prompted referee Harrigan to tell Ainscough that he'd already squared up the ledger and was not to continue with the niggle.
		It was imperative that the Knights were first to score in the second half or their slim chances of rescuing the game would evaporate.
		When all was said and done, the Knights fans felt somewhat hardly done by after the decisions of the video referee cruelled their chances in the game.
	archive.rleague.com /2000/australia/nrl/rep21sgivnew.htm (2264 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint George
		Hearing the story on a day when a princess was to be eaten, he crossed himself, rode to battle against the serpent, and killed it with a single blow with his lance.
		George then held forth with a magnificent sermon, and converted the locals.
		Saint George was a man who abandoned one army for another: he gave up the rank of tribune to enlist as a soldier for Christ.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintg05.htm (488 words)

	St. George: Patron Saint of Scouting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George was typical of what a Scout should be.
		"St. George's Day is April 23, and on that day, Scouts remind themselves of their Promise and Scout Law.
		So, the Sunday nearest to St. George's Day has become an annual occasion for Scouts to hold ceremonies when they reaffirm their Promise and acknowledge the Scout Law in a national act of dedication.
	www.ely.org.uk /heros/stgeorgscouts.htm (215 words)

	BBC - London - Your London - St. George's Day History
		As with most saints, myth and legend surrounds St George and of how a Roman soldier came to be regarded as the essence of England.
		St George was popularised in England by Crusaders, Christian knights returning from religious wars in the Middle East.
		He was supposed to have appeared to the Knights dressed in white robes decorated with a red cross during the 11th century siege of Antioch.
	www.bbc.co.uk /london/yourlondon/stgeorges/stgeorge_history.shtml (445 words)

	St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Order of the Garter is a non-pious company, a reincarnation of knights of the "Round-Table", dedicated to St. George the dragon slayer of the late 200's in the Byzantian Empire and subsequently adopted by the crusaders.
		When each Garter Knight was created they were given a brass and enamel stall plate which was affixed to their stall in the chapel.
		Sir Thomas de Beauchamp 3rd Earl of Warwick was a knight of the Garter, a friend to Edward III and a guardian of the boy king, Richard II.
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/chapel.html (1258 words)

	The Legend of St. George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saint George was Patron Saint of England in the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
		George was born in Cappadocia of noble, Christian parents and on the death of his father, accompanied his mother to Palestine, her country of origin, where she had land and George was to run the estate.
		Dioclesian was a great persecutor of Christians (from about 302) and when the persecutions began George put aside his office and complained personally to the Emperor of the harshness of his decrees and the dreadful purges of Christians.
	www.shcsc.k12.in.us /arthur/stgeorg.htm (724 words)

	Knights of St. George - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Knights of St. George - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		George of Lydda was a martyr, victim to the Roman Emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians in the fourth century.
		Order of St. George of Alfama was amalgamated with the Aragonese Order of Montesa
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Knights_of_St._George (305 words)

	Artisan Publishers Saint George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story of St. George comes to us from Palestine, where the memory of the Champion of Religious Liberty is venerated to this day by Christian and Moslem alike.
		The Greek Orthodox Church honours St. George as the "Great Martyr," "Captain of the Noble Army of Martyrs" and the majority of the monasteries in the East are dedicated to the "Victorious One", or "Trophy Bearer".
		His memory is perpetuated in the British national flag of which the red cross of St. George is the foundation, and which is overlaid with the cross of St. Andrew of Scotland, and the cross of St. Patrick of Ireland.
	www.artisanpublishers.com /bk_st_george.html (247 words)

	Francis Bacon Research Trust - George
		For normal wear a simpler medallion of plain gold is used, known as the Lesser George, suspended on a ribband of Garter blue.
		From the allegorical point of view, which is also important in Bacon’s method, St. George is the human equivalent of the Greek god Apollo or Hebraic-Christian archangel Michael.
		He was also the President of the Society of the Rosie Cross, whose emblem was a red cross on a white field and a rose, the same as that of St. George, the patron saint of England.
	www.fbrt.org.uk /pages/bacon/bacon-george.html (526 words)

	St. John
		The organization was founded as the Roman Catholic Union of the Knights of St. John, which was later shortened to the Knights of St. John.
		The founders of the Knights of St. John had ideals which they desired to spread and foster among Catholic men.
		This was the underpinning idea upon which the Knights of St. John grew and prospered.
	www.kykofc.com /kentucky/koc_sites/int/john.htm (545 words)

	Knights, Slayers seek to join Tivoli in finals - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		In the other semi-final, champions Urban Knights levelled their series against St George's Slayers with a comfortable 79-53 win in the opening match.
		Earlier, the Knights turned in a gritty performace to tie their series at 1-1 with St George's.
		Dorrell Barrett topscored for the Knights with 16 points, followed by Linton Murray with 13 points and nine rebounds and Tamar Heron with 11 points and five rebounds.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20050620T200000-0500_82774_OBS_KNIGHTS__SLAYERS_SEEK_TO_JOIN_TIVOLI_IN_FINALS.asp (411 words)

	Knights Of St. George Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		The International Knightly Order of St. George - Founded in Visegrad, Hungary on 23 April 1326; in the presence of King Karoly Robert of Hungary (d.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Knights_of_St._George (531 words)

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