 It tells that George had been restored to life with a touch of Saint Peter's staff.The expanding legend of this St. George, which, according to the Church historian Duchesne is not earlier than the 11th century, then makes that saint one of the Seventy Apostles of the Gospel of Luke.It tells that he founded the church of the "[civitas] que dicitur Vetula in pago Vellavorum", the city "called Vetula in the "pays" of the Vellavi" was how a document of 1004 termed it.