☦️ May 6 - Memorial Day of the Holy Glorious Great Martyr, Victorious and Wonderworker George

 ☦️ May 6 - Memorial Day of the Holy Glorious Great Martyr, Victorious and Wonderworker George. (303 AD)



























According to legend, Saint George is buried in the city of Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel.
☦️ Liberator of captives and patron of the poor, doctor of the infirm, intercessor of Christians, Great Martyr Victorious George, pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
Rejoice, you who loved Jesus the Son of God to the end; rejoice, you who laid down your soul with love for His name.
Rejoice, George, the great Victorious One! 🕊️
☦️ On icons, St. George is depicted sitting on a white horse and slaying a dragon with a spear. This image is based on a legend and is related to the posthumous miracles of the holy great martyr George. They say that not far from the place where St. George was born in the city of Beirut, there lived a snake in a lake that often devoured people of that area. What kind of beast it was - a boa constrictor, a crocodile or a large lizard - is unknown.
The superstitious people of that area began to regularly draw lots to give him a young man or a girl to eat by the lot to satisfy the rage of the snake. One day, the lot fell on the daughter of the ruler of that area. She was taken to the shore of the lake and tied up, where she waited in horror for the snake to appear.
When the beast began to approach her, a bright young man suddenly appeared on a white horse, who struck the snake with a spear and saved the girl. This young man was the holy great martyr George. With such a miraculous phenomenon he stopped the destruction of young men and women within Beirut and converted to Christ the inhabitants of that country, who had previously been pagans.


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