Saint George
The Ancients
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Saint George and the Empire
In the victorians, saint george has a really important role to play. He is very much in the tradition of king arthur. There are works that claim he was born in tintagel and owned the sword excaliber. War memorials often have saint george on them. And so he's understood as a symbol of england. However, it isn't peculiar to england. In australia, there's a lot of saint george. But similarly, you could go to italy and find a hundred different settlements that invoke saint george directly in their name.
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