Gibbon, no doubt maliciously, confused St. George with an army contractor who supplied pork to the Romans and later, by some accident, became Archbishop of Alexandria. But although no one accepts that origin, nobody knows just what St. George did to have his name associated with sanctity, chivalry, England and the Dragon. What is certain is that he has a day, on April 23, and this year the celebration in Wellington will be broadcast, by 2YC, from 9 p.m. The Hon. Peter Fraser will talk on England. The figure of St. George, which we reproduce, is to be seen on the west side of St. Mark’s, Venice.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 25
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107Gibbon, no doubt maliciously, confused St. George with an army contractor who supplied pork to the Romans and later, by some accident, became Archbishop of Alexandria. But although no one accepts that origin, nobody knows just what St. George did to have his name associated with sanctity, chivalry, England and the Dragon. What is certain is that he has a day, on April 23, and this year the celebration in Wellington will be broadcast, by 2YC, from 9 p.m. The Hon. Peter Fraser will talk on England. The figure of St. George, which we reproduce, is to be seen on the west side of St. Mark’s, Venice. New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 25
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