St. George, Shakespeare, and the Plague - Crisis Magazine

Interesting piece. Makes me want to get around to reading The Winters Tale - one of the works on my pile to works to read!

St. George, Shakespeare, and the Plague - Crisis Magazine: Like many saints, George the dragon-slaying patron of England has murky origins, but he may go back to the Christian martyr soldier who refused to make a pagan sacrifice for the Emperor Diocletian’s bribe of wealth, and lost his head for it on April 23, 303. A millennium or so later, English Crusaders brought back …

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