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SAINTS have argued that armour is visible beneath them. He is said to have been a Christian who refused to renounce his faith, possibly during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the emperor Diocletian. The legend of George fighting the dragon was crystallised in the collection of the lives of the saints compiled by Jacobus deVoragine called The Golden Legend. According to The Golden Legend, St George was a native of Cappadocia and a tribune in the Roman army who one day arrived at the city of Silena in the province of Libya. Upon his arrival he discovered that the city was being terrorised by a ‘pestilential dragon’ whose wrath the people were assuaging by giving it sheep from their flocks. When their sheep were consumed they decided to offer it people, chosen by lot. Eventually the king’s daughter herself was chosen in this way.Although the king pleaded with his people to spare her they were unrelenting and she was offered to the dragon. St George witnessed this and charged the dragon upon his horse, striking it a terrible blow with his lance. He told the princess to throw her girdle around the neck of the defeated dragon and she led it into the city. St George finally slew the dragon on condition that the inhabitants of the city agreed to be baptised and embrace Christianity. There has been considerable speculation about the origin of this legend, some viewing it as metaphor for individual Christians standing up to a human tyrant or ‘dragon’ and choosing martyrdom over denying their faith. It has been widely argued that the imagery of St George as a handsome young warrior defeating an evil monster can be traced to such Greek myths as the stories of Perseus saving Andromeda or Bellerophon and the Chimera. His feast day is 23 April. •84•
SAINTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES St Sebastian St Sebastian, like St George, was said to have been a Roman soldier who died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Diocletian. Little is known of his life but he is reported to have enlisted in 283 AD and was a Christian who became the captain of the elite praetorian guard – the emperor’s personal bodyguard. St Sebastian offered help and assistance to a number of Christian martyrs and, when this was discovered by Diocletian, he was sentenced to be shot to death with arrows. However, he survived this ordeal and appeared again before the astonished emperor who had him clubbed to death. Although the actual martyrdom of St Sebastian was achieved through his being brutally beaten to death with clubs, it is the story of his having been shot with arrows that is most identified with his cult. It has proved to be an enormously popular subject for painters such as El Greco, Botticelli and Bernini. It has been argued that the popularity of the subject was because it gave painters the opportunity to depict a semi-naked young man in a religious context and that images of St Sebastian often have unmistakably erotic overtones. In this sense, St Sebastian has become something of a gay icon and this theme has been explored by the filmmaker Derek Jarman amongst others. The western feast day of St Sebastian is 20 January and in the Eastern Church it is celebrated on 18 December. He is a patron saint of archers, soldiers and the police and was invoked against the plague. •85•
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Jenkins, Simon, Englan
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Abda al-Qadir al-Jilani, 68 Act of
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Domitian, 21 dragons, 21, 49, 79, 8
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