article_snippet.sent: A picture of the legend of St George and the Dragon .
article_snippet.sent: The medieval legend of St George and the Dragon is over a thousand years old.
article_snippet.sent: St George travelled to Libya, where St George met an old hermit who told St George a dragon had long ravaged Libya, demanding the sacrifice of a beautiful maiden every day.
article_snippet.sent: But after falling from the Dragon horse, St George evaded the Dragon's attack by hiding under an enchanted orange tree before recovering the Dragon strength and killing the beast with the Dragon sword.
article_snippet.sent: The slaying of the Dragon by St George, a brave Roman soldier who protested against the Romans' torture of Christians, was first credited to the Dragon in the twelfth century, long after the Dragon death.
article_snippet.sent: St George St George was thought to be a Roman soldier, born to Christian parents in A.D. 270 in what is now Eastern Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: Adomnán, the Abbot of Iona in Scotland, provides Britain’s earliest recorded reference to St George in the 7th Century.
article_snippet.sent: St George details the story of the Saint’s exploits, which had been told to St George by a French bishop named Arcuif who had travelled to Jerusalem with the Crusaders .
article_snippet.sent: As the Crusaders returned to England from foreign shores, the Crusaders brought with the Crusaders tales of St George, and St George reputation grew .
article_snippet.sent: A church in Fordington, Dorset, still records St George leading the Crusaders into battle.
article_snippet.sent: St George St George later resigned St George military post and protested against Emperor Diocletian against Emperor Diocletian persecution of Christians .
article_snippet.sent: It was not until 1348 that St George became the Patron Saint of England.
highlights_snippet.sent: The patron Saint of England St George slayed a dragon in famous legend .