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Patron saint of England, Malta, Aragon & Catalonia (parts of Spain) and Romania; Father born in Turkey, Mother was Syrian; Was a Roman Soldier; Died in Palestine (having never set foot in Britain); He's a Christian Saint, also a Muslim & Jewish pr...  

... my wife never pardoned him on the dragon issue - she will be delighted to read that he had learned his lesson due to the bad PR ! Marcus

Good God, Man! What?!? Our patron saint was a Turkish-Syrian hybrid polytheist who lived in foreign lands and was "claimed" as a messiah by three religions like Brian Cohen (Monty Python's Life of Brian)? Next you'll be saying our Royal dynasties spoke Fr... 

but as for seeing Santa, I stopped drinking Fly Agaric imbued reindeer urine many years ago ;-)

We are all filled with Dragons that need taming. This is my version of St George (from Russian Novgorod original) Cazalea ...  

Lovely picture, Mike - but where is the fair maiden? Not often depicted in medieval Orthodox art I guess. Cheers, Giles

Which was beyond my ability to paint in a week's workshop. Here's an older icon done by a master (in the Tretyakov Gallery), with the village and the fair maiden ...  

........a bit more 'fair' ;-) and preferably without this problem: ...