Saint George
The Ancients
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What Did the Holy Man Do?
Shaesa: The martyrdom legend gets going quite quickly. Certainly not a dragon slayer. That idea comes much later. But what the holy man did is an interesting question. There's one tradition which somebody tore down an edict outlaw in christianity, and that was at nicomedia, the cathedral. I think of him as almost like martin luther in reverse. So martin l Luther nails up the 95 theses. This person, who may be saint george, ripsdown the edict from the door of the cathedral. And yet, there is really no evidence that that happened. It's all rather a mystery. We have this tremendously important figure
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