Saint George
The Ancients
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St. George's Popularity in Latin America
Saints george is recognized in four of the five major wold religions. Buddhism is the one that eludes me. Versions of saint george appear in all the others, but also the syncratic religion, candomble. There's been a campaign by the catholic church against the sopopra and saying that people who watch it will burn in hell. So we've got this rather strange situation of a saint who is completely positive, and somewhere else as extremely worryingly negative because of his ability to move between different religious traditions.
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