April 23 was St George’s day. Celebrated as the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice, and England. Although he never set foot in any of them. History shows, he was born in Cappadocia, Turkey around AD270 and was martyred at Nicomedia, or Lydda, modern day Israel, in the Roman province of Palestine in AD303 for refusing to abandon Christianity and worship a new Roman God. Legend holds he was tortured for seven years and died 3 times to be reviewed by St. Michael each time.
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