Greek legends

According to life, Saint George was born in the third century in Cappadocia in the family of Christians (the option was born in Lidda, Palestine, and grew up in Cappadocia; either, on the contrary, his father was tortured for the confession of Christ in Cappadocia, and his mother with his son fled to Palestine). When he entered the military service, he, distinguished by the mind, courage and physical strength, became one of the Russians and the favorite of Emperor Diocletian. His mother died when he was 20 years old, and he got rich inheritance. Georgy went to the court, hoping to achieve a high position, but when the persecution of Christians began, he, being in Nikomide, distributed the property to the poor and in front of the emperor declared himself a Christian, he was arrested and turned to torture him.

George suffered all these torments and did not reject Christ. After unsuccessful persuasion to renounce and bring a pagan sacrifice, he was sentenced to death. On this night, he was the Savior with a golden crown on his head in a dream and said he was waiting for him. Georgy, that hour called the servant, who recorded everything said (one of the apocryphas was written on behalf of this servant) and ordered after death to take her body to Palestine after death.

At the end of the torment, George Emperor Diocletian, descending into the dungeon, once again he suggested that the former commander of his bodyguards renounce Christ. George said: " Take me to the temple of Apollo" And when it was executed (on the 8th day), Georgy got in full growth in front of a white-name statue, and everyone heard his speech: " Did I really go for a mischief? And can you take this sacrifice from me like God?"At the same time, George painted himself and the statue of Apollo with a congestion - and this forced the demon who dwells in her, to declare himself with the fallen angel. After that, all the idols in the temple were crushed.

The priests hung up with these priests rushed to beat George. And the wife of Emperor Alexander, who came to the temple, rushed to the legs of the Great Martyr and, sobbing, asked for a sin of her husband-tyrant for the sins. She was addressed to faith what he had just miraculously. Diocectian cried in anger: " Cut! Cut off your head! Both cut off!"And Georgy, praying for the last time, with a relaxed smile put his head on the fell.

Together with George, the martyrdom of Queen Alexander Roman, named after the wife of Emperor Diocletian (the real spouse of the emperor, known for historical sources, was called Prsk).

Legends about Saint George, Simeon Metaphrause, Andrei Jerusalem, Grigory Cyprus. In the tradition of the Byzantine Empire, there is a legendary relationship between George the Victorious and Saint Warriors Feodorami - Theodore Pratilat and Theodore Tiron. Researchers explain this by the fact that Galatia and Paflagonia, which were the centers of honoring the proximity of the Holy Feodors, were not far from Asia Minor and Cappadocia, where he was honored with St. George.

There is another connection between Theodore Pastlatite and Georgy Victorious. In Russian spiritual poems, Feodor (without clarification) is the father of HIR (George Victorious). There is also a German medieval poem in which Georgy's brother is called the feodore warrior (from context is unclear, thiron or stratulat).

Latin texts

Latin texts of his life, being initially the translations of Greek, with time they became very different from them. They say that for the adultery of the Devil, the Persian Emperor Daqian, the Lord of the 72st Kings, subjected to cruel persecutions of Christians. At this time, a certain Georgy from Cappadocia lived, a native of Melitna, he lived there in some pious widow. It was subjected to numerous tortures (punch, iron mites, fire, wheel with iron tips, the boots, naked to the legs, the iron chest, from the inside the stunned nails, which was discharged from the cliff, beat the sledgehamps, put a pillar on the chest, the heavy stone shoulded On the hot iron bed, Lily melted lead, threw into the well, scored 40 long nails, burned in a copper bull). After each torture, George was healed again. The torment continued for 7 years. His resistance and miracles turned 40,900 people into Christianity, including the Queen Alexander. When George and Alexander were executed on the orders of Daqiana, a fiery whirl was gone from the sky and seeded the emperor himself.

Reinbot Background Tourna (XIII century) retells a legend, simplifying it: 72 of the king turned into 7, and countless torture declined to 8 (bind and put a heavy cargo on the chest; beaten by sticks; they are hunger; they are fascinated; fourth and thrown in the pond; Sun down from the mountains in a copper bull; drive under the nails with a poisoned sword), and finally cut off the head.

Jacob Voorgin writes that at first he was tied to the cross and dragged with iron hooks, while the intestines did not get out, and then they were salted water. The next day forced to drink poison. Then they tied to the wheel, but it broke; Then they threw into the boiler with molten lead. Then, by his prayer from heaven, lightning went down and hesitated all idols, and the earth sprout and absorbed priests. Daqiana's wife (here it processed with Diocletian) turned, seeing this, in Christianity; She was beheaded with George, and Daqiana after that was also incisible.

Apocryphic texts

The earliest sources of apocryphal legends about Saint George include:

• « Martyrdom George"Mentioned in the Decree of Pope Gelasia (Early edition End V - the beginning of the 6th centuries). Gelacy rejects the acts of the martyrdom of St. George as a heretical falsification and relates George to the saints that God are more famous than people;
• Vienna palimpsest (V century);
• « Acts Georgia"(Nessian passages) (VI century, found in 1937 in the Negev desert).

Apocryphah agiography relates George's martyrdom to the board of the legendary Persian Tsar Dadian. These lives reported on its seven-year torments, three-year death and resurrection, to score to his head of nails, etc. In the fourth time, George dies, a truncated sword, and his tormentors comprehends the heavenly car.

Martyrdom of St. George is known in the Latin, Syrian, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian and Arab translations that contain various details about the suffering suffering. One of best texts His lives are in Slavic Mis.

In the east

In Islam Georgy ( Jirjis, Girgis, El Hoody) It is one of the main non-melting figures and the legend it is quite similar to Greek and Latin.

He lived in the same time as the prophet Mohammed. Allah sent him to the ruler Mosul with a call to accept the true faith, but the Vladyka commanded to execute him. He was executed, but Allah was resurrected and sent back to the ruler. He was executed for the second time, then in the third (burned and ashes threw in a tiger). He rebelled out of the ashes, and the rulers and his approximal were exterminated.

Saint George was transferred to arabic At the beginning of the 7th century, and under the influence of Christian Arabs, the reverence of St. George penetrated on Wednesday Arab-Muslims. Arabic apocryphate text of the lives of St. George is contained in "The stories of the prophets and kings" (The beginning of the X century), in it, George is called a student of one of the apostles of the Prophet Isa, whom the pagan Tsar Mosul subjected to torture and executions, but Georgy every time he was resurrected by Allah.

The Greek Historian of the XIV century John Cantakuzine notes that in his time there were several temples erected by Muslims in honor of St. George. The same man says the traveler of the XIX century Burkhard. Dean Stanley in the XIX century recorded that he saw the Muslim "chapel" on the seafront near the city of Sarandend (Ancient Sarepta), which was dedicated to Al-Hugeder. Inside it was not the tomb, but only a niche, which was a retreat from Muslim canons - and was due to the words of local peasants by the fact that El Khudder was not dead, but flies throughout the Earth, and wherever he appears, people are eating similar "chapels "

There are a large similarity of the legend with a story about the resurrect chaldean deity Tammouze, known from the "Book of Nabatoye Agriculture", the holiday of which is about the same period, and this similarity indicated its ancient translator Ibn Whashia. Researchers suggest that special respect for Holy George in the East, and its extraordinary popularity was explained by the fact that he was a Christian version of Tammuz - the dying and resurrecting God, similar to Adonis and Osiris. According to the assumptions of some researchers, George as a mythical character is the Semitic Divine, which has passed into Christianity, some changes were made in whose history in the process of adaptation to clear it from unnecessary details and deprive an erotic shade. Thus, the goddess of love of such myths turned into a devout widow, in the house of which he lived the Holy Young man, and the queen of the underworld Kingdom is to Tsaritsu Alexander, who will follow him in the grave.

Miracles of St. George

One of the most famous posthumous wonders of St. George is the murder of the Snake (Dragon) spear, devastating the land of one pagan king in Beirut. As the legend says when the tsar's daughter fell to the confusion, Georgy appeared on horseback and pierced the snake with a spear, having saved the princess from death. The phenomenon of saint contributed to the appeal of local residents in Christianity.

This legend was often interpreted allegorically: Tsarevna - Church, snake - paganism. It is also considered as a victory over the devil - "Ancient Zmeim" (Open.10: 3; 20: 2).

There is an option for describing this miracle relating to the life of George. In Him, the saint conquers a snake prayer and a sacrificing girl leads him to the city, where the inhabitants, seeing this miracle, take Christianity, and Georgy kills the snake sword.

Poons

It is believed that the relics of St. George are currently located in the Greek Church in the Israeli city of Lodda (Lidda), and the head is kept in the Roman Basilica of San Georio-In Velabro.

Reality of existence

The reality of the existence of St. George, as well as many early Christian saints is in question. Eustian Caesarian says:

It is assumed that this martyr, whose behalf of whom Essiew does not call, could be holy George, in which case, that is all that it is known from a reliable source.

The inscription is mentioned in 346 in Greek from the Church in Ezra (Syria), originally formerly pagan temple. It refers to Georgia as a martyr, which is important, since in the same period there was another Georgy - Bishop Alexandria (mind 362), with which the martyr is sometimes confused. Calvin was the first to doubt that George the Victorious should be honored with the saint, followed by Dr. Reynolds, according to which he and Alexandrian bishop - the same face. Bishop Georgy was Arianin (that is, for the modern church - heretic), he was born on a submount mill in Epifania (Kilicia), was a provider provider for the army (Constantinople), and when he was caught in fraud, fled to Cappadocia. Ariana's friends forgave him after the payment of the fine and sent to Alexandria, where he was elected a bishop (in opposition to St. Athanasius) immediately after the death of the Arian prelace Grigory. Together with Dragon and Diodor, he immediately began the cruel persecution of Christians and pagans, and the last and killed him, raising the uprising. Dr. Hayin (1633) objected to this identification, but Dr. John Pettinal (1753) again raised the question of the identity of the victorious. Dr. Samuel Pegg (1777) responded to him in his report made for the Society of Collectors of Antiquities. Gibbon also believed that George Victorious and Arian Bishop was the same person. Sabin Baring Gould (1866) resolutely objected to such identification of the imminently existing bishop with a holy martyr: "... the incredibility of such a transformation makes any doubt in the truth of this statement. Too great was a hostility between the Catholics and Arians to adherence to the latter, and the persecutor of Catholics could accept for the saint. The writings of St. Athanasius, in which he painted far from the flattering portrait of his opponent, in the Middle Ages had a fairly widespread, and such an error would be simply impossible. "

There is also a hypothesis about the existence of two saints with the name George, one of which suffered in Cappadocia, and the other in Liddes.

West

This saint has become extremely popular since early Christianity. He has undergone flour in Nikomidia, and soon he began to read him in Falley, Palestine, then all east. In Rome, in the VII century there were already two churches in honor of him, and he was honored with the V century in Gaul.

Memory

In the Orthodox Church:

• May 6 (April 23 to the old style);
• November 16 (November 3 to the old style) - an update (sanctification) of the temple of the Great Martyr George in Liddes (IV century);
• November 23 (November 10, on old style) - the rustling of the Great Martyr George (Georgian celebration)
• December 9 (November 26, by the old style) - the consecration of the church of the Great Martyr George in Kiev in 1051 (the celebration of the Russian Orthodox Church, famous for the people as autumn Yuriev Day)

In the Catholic Church:

• April 23.

In the west of St. George - the patron saint of chivalry, participants in crusades; He is one of the fourteen holy assistants.

Cult of St. George

According to one of the versions, the cult of St. George, as it often happened to the Christian saints, was put forward to the pagan cult of Dionisa (Greek. Georgos, the farmer), the temples were built on the place of the former Sanctures of Dionysus and were celebrated in honor of him holidays in Dionysia.

George is considered the patron of warriors, farmers and shepherds, and in some places - travelers. In Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia, believers addressed him with prayers for rain. In Georgia, George addressed requests for protection from evil, about giving good luck on the hunt, about the crop and the rating of livestock, about healing from the ailments, about Chadorody. In Western Europe, it is believed that the prayers of St. George (George) helps to get rid of poisonous snakes and infectious diseases. Saint George is known for the Islamic peoples of Africa and the Middle East under the names of Jirjis and Al-Hdra.

In Russia since ancient times St. George worshiped under the name of Yuri or Republic. In the 1030s, the Grand Duke Yaroslav founded the monasteries of St. George in Kiev and Novgorod (see the monastery of the monastery) and commanded all over Russia "Creating Holiday" from St. George on November 26 (December 9).

In Orthodoxy is considered a patron of agriculture and cattle breeding. April 23 and November 26 (old style) are known under the name of the Spring and Autumn Yurian Day. Images of St. George are encountered since ancient times on high-grade coins and seals.

Holy George, together with the Virgin, is considered to be the heavenly patron of Georgia and is Georgian the most revered holy. According to local legends, Georgy had to relatives equivalent to Nina, the enlightenment of Georgia.

The first temple in honor of St. George was built in Georgia in 335 by the King of Mirian at the site of the burial of Holy Nina, from the IX century the construction of churches in honor of George became massive.

The love of the saint was first translated into the Georgian language at the end of the 15th century. In the XI century, Georgy Svyatogorets, with the transfer of "Great Synaksar", performed a brief translation of Life George.

The George Cross is present on the flag of the Georgian Church. For the first time, he appeared on Georgian banners under Queen Tamara.

In the Ossetian traditional beliefs, Wastardji (Wassgergi) occupies the most important place, which appears to be a strong gray-row old man in armor on a three-or-four-headed white horse. He patronizes men. Women are forbidden to pronounce his name, instead of which they call him L? Gta dzaire (Patron Men). Celebrations in his honor, as in Georgia begin on November 23 and continue the week. Tuesday of this festive week is especially revered. The cult itself is syncretic by its nature: with the beginning of the spread of Christianity in Alanya (V century) and before its final adoption (X century), a certain deity from the Pantheon of the Ethnic Ossetian religion, the cult of which originates from the time of Indo-Iranian community was subjected to the transformation church. As a result, the deity took the name George, also the name of the holiday in his honor ( Jorguyba) was borrowed as a result of a significant impact of Georgian Orthodoxy from georgian language. Otherwise, the cult of the patron remained ethnic by its nature.

Teony Wastardi. Easy to deteriorate from old-ion form Wasjyrgiwhere uAS. - The Word, which in the early Alan Christianity marked the saint, and the second part is the Iron Option name Georgy.. An even more transparent etymology of the theondim appears when analyzing the Digor form Weshergi.

Images

In art

There are two directions of the iconography of Miracle of St. George about Zmey: Western and East.

• in East School, the image of St. George is more spiritually: not a very muscular young man (without a beard) without heavy armor and helmet, with a subtle, obviously not physical, spear, on an unrealistic (spiritual) horse without much physical tension pierces a spear of an unrealistic (spiritual) snake with Wings and paws.
• in Western School, the image of St. George is more materialistic: a muscular man in heavy armor and helmet, with a thick spear, on a realistic horse with a physical tension pierces a spear of an almost realistic snake with wings and legs.

In Heraldik

Since the time of Dmitry Donskoy is considered the patron saint of Moscow, since the city was founded by the theeen prince Yuri Dolgoruky. The image of the rider who affects the spear of Zmia, from the turn of the XIV-XV centuries appearing in Moscow Heraldry, was perceived in the people's consciousness as the image of St. George; In 1730, this was fixed officially.

Currently this figure in the coat of arms Russian Federation Describes as "Silver rider running to the silver horse in a blue raincoat, striking the silver spear of a black tipped, and the meal of a dragon, also facing left", that is, without a direct reference to St. George, and depicted without Nibe. It should be noted that in fact it is not a dragon on the coat of arms, and Zmey. In Heraldry Zmiy - a negative character, and the dragon is positive, it is possible to distinguish them by the number of paws - two at the dragon and four in Zmia. The use of the Dragon's references in the official documents of the Russian Federation instead of ZMIA should be regarded as an annoying misunderstanding and non-professionalism of the heraldic service. At the same time, in the emblem of Moscow, the saint of Georgia, striking by Zmia, is referred to:

Geragian's coat of arms depicts a heraldic shield of red with depicted George the victorious of the striking snake.

Also, Geragiyevsky Cross is a straight red cross on a white field in Heraldry and Ixillology. It is presented on the flags of Great Britain and England, Georgia, on the flag and the coat of arms of Milan. Do not confuse the St. George Cross with another Christian symbol - the Scandinavian cross.

In toponymy

Russian Prince Yaroslav Wise in honor of his Sacred Patron George founded and called the following cities: Yuriev (Gurgev, now Tartu) and Yuriev Russian (now the White Church).

Links and literature

• "Miracles of St. George. " Text of VII-IX centuries, Russian Yaz.
• The suffering of the holy and glorious Great Martyr George, written by Master of Fyodor Daphnopath
• Consecration of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr George in Kiev
• Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich. "In the land promised. At the tomb of George Victorious "
• Georgy, Great Martyr // Orthodox Encyclopedia

On April 23, 303, the Christian Holy and Great Martyr Georgy Victorious was beheaded. This is one of the most revered Orthodox saints. It is believed that George was challenged by order of Emperor Diocletian for the dedication of the Orthodox faith, but an angel came, put his hand on the exterpant George, and the latter was healed. Nurst Miracle, many of the pagans switched to the Orthodox faith. George did not refuse faith, even under scary torture, launched eight days.

We present to your attention a few interesting facts About the Great Martyr George Victorious.

"Miracle George about Zmie" (icon, end of the XIV century). PortrayedGeorge Victoronechitting a snake spear

1) He was born in the family of Christians. When he entered the military service, he distinguished himself by the mind, courage and physical strength. George became the best commander at the courtyard of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

2) After the death of the parents, he received a rich inheritance, and when persecution of Christians began in the country, George appeared in the Senate, said that he was Orthodox, and distributed all his property to the poor.

3) Diocletian has long stacked George to renounce Christ, but saw that the commander is firm in his faith. Because of this, George was subjected to terrible torture.

4) Georgy under torture:

In the 1st day, when it began to push the stakes in the dungeon, one of them broke the wonderful way, like a straw. Then he was tied to the columns, and a heavy stone was put on the chest.

The next day, he was subjected to torture with a wheel, covered with knives and swords. Diocletian found him dead, but suddenly, according to the legend, angel appeared, and George welcomed him, as the warriors did, then the emperor realized that the martyr was still alive. He was removed from the wheel and saw that all wounds were healed.

Then he was thrown into the pit, where there was a neglect lime, but it was not damaged to the saint.

A day later he was kosti in his arms and legs, but the next morning they again became integer.

He was forced to escape in the hot-hot rail boots with sharp nails inside. All the next night he prayed and the next morning appeared before the emperor.

He was beaten by the screamers so that the skin was taken from the back, but he rebelled healed.

On the 7th day he was forced to drink two cups with drugs, cooked by the Magicha Athanasius, from one of which he had to lose the mind, and from the second - to die. But they did not damage him. Then he made a few miracles (resurrected the deceased and revived the fallen oxen), which forced many to appeal to Christianity.

Mikael Wang Coxy. "Martyrdom of St. George"

5) On the eighth day, he was taken to the temple of Apollon where he painted himself and the statue of Apollo with a congestion - and this forced the demon who dwells in her, to declare himself with the fallen angel. After that, all the idols in the temple were crushed. The priests hung up with these priests rushed to beat George, and the wife of Emperor Alexander came running to the temple was rushed to his legs and, sobbing, she asked for a sin of her husband-tyrant. Diocletian cried in anger: " Cut! Cut off your head! Both cut off!"And Georgy, praying for the last time, with a relaxed smile put his head on the fell.

6) Georgy was counted for the facility of the Great Martyrs as fearlessly affected by the Christian faith. The victorious of him began to be called for the fact that in torture he showed an invincible will, and later he repeatedly helped Christian soldiers. Most of the wonders of St. George are posthumous.

7) Saint George is one of the most revered Saints Georgia and is considered its heavenly defender. In the Middle Ages, the Greeks and Europeans called George Georgia, since there was almost every hill in his honor. St. George's Day is officially announced in Georgia.

8) The Wooden Church of George Victorious, built in 1493, is considered the oldest wooden church in Russia, which stands at its historic place.

Paolo Stochello. "Battle of St. George with Zmeim"

9) One of the most famous posthumous miracles of St. George is the murder of the Snake (Dragon) spear, devastating the land of one pagan king in Beirut. As the legend says when the tsar's daughter fell to the confusion, Georgy appeared on horseback and pierced the snake with a spear, having saved the princess from death. The phenomenon of saint contributed to the appeal of local residents in Christianity.

10) With the name of George the Victorious, the appearance of the city of Moscow is connected. When the Great Kiev Prince Vladimir Monomach was born her son, he called him Yuri. His Heavenly Patron His Georgy Victorious, and on the Princely Printing was depicted Holy George hurried and removing the sword (the snake on that image was not). According to the legend, Yuri Dolgoruky rode from Kiev to Vladimir and on the way he stopped to swim from the boyar bunch. I did not like the princess, and he first decided to execute Boyarin, but having loved his possession, gave the command to establish the city of Moscow. And in the emblem, the new city gave the image of his heavenly patron.

11) George Victorious is considered the patron saint of the Russian man. Georgievskaya tape appeared in Catherine II with the Order of St. George - the Higher Military Award Russian Empire. And in 1807, the Georgievsky Cross was established - awarded the award in the Russian Imperial Army ranked in the Russian Imperial Army ( the sign of the distinction of the military order was the highest award for soldiers and non-commissioned officers for military merit and for courage shown against the enemy).

12) Ribbons dropped in the framework of the "Georgievskaya ribbon" shares dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day in Great Patriotic War, called Georgievski, referring to a two-color tape to the Order of St. George, although critics claim that in fact they are more corresponding to the guards, since they mean the symbol of victory in the Great Patriotic War and have orange color Striped, not yellow.

Holy George is one of the Great Martyrs of the Orthodox Church. The victorious of him was called for courage, strength and will in the fight against the enemy of the military. He became famous for holy as help and love for people. The lives of St. George the Victorious became famous for many facts, and the history of his posthumous phenomenon was generally similar to the magical fairy tale.

Saint George Victorious

The parents of the saint were believers and God-fearing Christians. Father suffered for faith and accepted the martyrdom. His mother, remaining widow, moved with young George to Palestine and took up the Christian education of Chad.

Great Martyr George Victorious

Georgy grew by the brave young men, and entered the service in the Roman army, Diocletian's emperor noted him. He took the warrior to his guard.

The ruler clearly understood the danger that Christ was brought to the civilization of the pagans, so he strengthened the persecution of Christianity. Diocletian provided commaritudes of freedom to violence over Orthodox. Georgy, having learned about the unfair decision of the ruler, distributed to the poor all the property, which was given after the death of the parents, gave the freedom to the slaves who worked in the estate, and appeared before the emperor.

He without fear, courageously impulsed Diocletian and his cruel intent, and after confessed his faith before him in Christ. The domineering genets tried to force the warrior to renounce the Savior and bring the sacrifice to idols, which he received a decisive refusal of the Orthodox Warrior. By orders of Diocletian, the squire pushed the victorious spears from the room and tried to lead him to prison.

But steel weapons miraculously became soft and easily bent when contacting the body of the saint.

Having placed the Orthodox warrior to the dungeon, his legs were scored in the pads, and the chest was given a big stone. In the morning, the unshakable warrior again confessed faith in Christ. Ospilly diocletian exposed to torture. Nude George tied to a chariot, over which boards with iron rally were arranged. When the wheels rotated, the iron cut his body. But instead of the moans and the expected renunciation of the Creator, the Holy only called the help of the Lord.

When the sufferer sat down, the pagan thought that he was emptied the spirit and ordered to remove the rugged broken body. But suddenly the sky was smoking, the great thunder rushed and the majestic voice of God was heard: "Do not be afraid, warrior. I'm with you". Immediately there was a bright glow and a blond young man was next to the victorious - the Angel of the Lord. He put his hand on his arm and he instantly rebelled healed.

Georgy Victorious (Lidd)

The imperial warriors took him to the chapter, where Diocletian was located. He did not believe his eyes - there was a completely healthy and full of strength to him. Many pagans who observed the miracle believed in Christ. Even two noble dignitaries immediately professed the faith of Christ, for which their heads were cut off.

Tsarina Alexander also tried to glorify the Almighty, but the imperial servants quickly took her to the palace.

The tsar-pagan in attempts to break unshakable George betrayed him for even more terrible flour. The martyr was thrown into deep moat, and his body was covered with a negro lime. Dipped George only on the third day. Surprisingly, his body was not damaged, and the man himself was in the joyful and calm arrangement of the Spirit. Diocletian did not calm down and ordered the shoe of the martyr into iron boots with nails hot inside them and put under arrest. In the morning, the warrior demonstrated healthy legs and joked that he really liked his boots. Then the enraged ruler ordered the holy body with violence and mix his blood and the body with the ground.

Deciding that George enjoys magical charms, the ruler called the courtyard to the courtyard, in order to deprive the former warrior of magic and poison him. He presented the martyr of the potion, but it did not affect, and the saint again glorified God.

Monasteries in honor of George Victorious:

Miracles of God

The emperor was waiting to learn what helps the former warrior to survive after terrible torment? Georgy answered that everything was possible with God. Then the pagan wished the martyr to raise the dead. When the victorious led to the tomb, he began to begging his father's heaven to show all those present that he was God of all over the world. And the earth shook, the coffin opened and the deadman came to life. Immediately those present at the phenomenon of a miracle believed in God and glorified him.

Miraculous image Holy Great Martyr George Victory

Again, George was in the dungeon. Awesome people tried to get to the arrestant different ways And he received healing from the ailments and assistance in petitions. Among them was glycheri farmer. He died for a man and a man came to resurrect the animal with a prayer. Saint promised to return cattle to life. Returning home, the man discovered in the stall of the revived ox and began to glorify the name of the Lord throughout the city.

Elimination of the earthly way

On the last night of his earthly life, Georgy prayed diligently. It happened to him that the Lord himself came up to him and kissed him, laid the martyr's crown on the chapter. In the morning, Diocletian suggested the Great Martyr to become a co-gerier and together to rule the country. To which George offered him to immediately go to the capital of Apollo.

The victorious crossed himself and turned to one of the idols with the question: would you like to take the victim as God? But the demon who was sitting in an idol shouted that God was the one he preaches George, and he is an apostate, choosing people. The priests pounced on the saint and furiously beaten.

St. George Victory Day on May 6

Queen Alexander, the wife of Diocletian, passed through the numerous branch branch, soldered to the legs of the saint and praying the Creator about help, glorifying him. The victorious and Alexander was made a death sentence to the bloodthirsty diocletian. They together follow the place of massacre, but along the way the queen fell without forces. The warrior of Christ forgave all his tormentors and put his holy chapter for a sharp sword.

So the era of paganism ended.

Wonders

The life of St. George Victorious is filled with many wirals.

About wonders in Orthodoxy:

The legend says that not far from one lake in Syria, a huge snake, similar to the dragon, lived in Syria. He devoured people and animals, and then emptied poisonous breathing into the air. Many brave men tried to kill the monster, but no attempt was crowned with success and all people died.

The Holy Great Martyr is especially revered in Georgia.

The town-poraner issued an order, according to which daily it was necessary to give a snake for the emergence of a girl or a young man. And he himself had a daughter. He promised that if the lot would fall on her, then the maiden will divide the fate of other suicide bumps. So it happened. The girl led to the lakeside and tied to the tree. She expected the appearance of a snake and his death hour. When the monster came out of the water and began to approach the beauty, suddenly the blonded young man appeared on a white horse. He looked into the body of a snake acute spear and saved the unhappy one.

This was the Holy George Victorious, who placed the end of young people in the country.

Residents of the country, having learned about the miracle, believed in Christ, at the site of the warrior's battle with the snake scored a healing source, and later the temple was erected in honor of the victorious. This plot was based on the Georgievsky image.

After the capture of Palestine, another miracles occurred. Arab who has shown in orthodox churchI saw the priestly praying for one of the icons. In trying to show neglect of the Holy Likov, Arab shot from Luke into one of the images. But the boom did not harm the icon, but returned and pierced the arrow's hand. In a rustling of unbearable pain, Arab appealed to the cleric, which he advised him to hang over the head of his Odra icon George the Victorious and to obey the wound with a rude from the lamp, which was addressed before his face. By recovery, the cleric presented Arab book, which describes the lives of the Holy. The holy life of the Orthodox warrior and his torment made the greatest impression on Araba. Soon he accepted Holy Baptism, became a preacher of Christianity, for which he accepted the martyrdom.

1. The saint, in addition to the usual name, is known under the names of Georgy Lidd and Cappadocyan.

2. On the day of the memory of St. On May 6, the Orthodox Church is celebrated by the memory of Queen Anna, the heart of the saint, who has believed in Christ and the victim for the confession of Orthodoxy.

3. The Holy Great Martyr is especially revered in Georgia. The first of the temples erected in his honor was built in the 1st century.

4. The name of George is raised by most Georgian babies. It is believed that a man who was named after Georgy will not know failures and in life will be the winner.

All suffers The Great Orthodox Warr has undergone the faith of Christ, which did not betray and did not exchange the power and wealth proposed by him by Diocletian. The Holy Great Martyr of Christ helps everyone who applied to His Concept. On the sincere and heart faith of the petitioner, his request will always be executed.

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May 6 (April 23 to the old style) Orthodox Church Celebrates the memory of the Holy Great Martyr George Victorious Born in the Lebanese Mountains.

Holy Great Martyr George Victorious: History

Great Martyr George was the son of rich and pious parents who attacked him in the Christian faith. He was born in the city of Beirut (in antiquity - Berit), at the foot of the Lebanese mountains.

Entering the military service, the Great Martyr George was distinguished among other warriors with his mind, courage, physical strength, military posture and beauty. Having reached the title of the Mrigor, Saint George, became a favorite of Emperor Diocletian. Diocletian was a talented ruler, but a fanatical adherent of the Roman gods. Having made himself the goal to revive in the Roman Empire, he entered the story as one of the most cruel persecutors of Christians.

Hearing once in court, an inhuman sentence of the extermination of Christians, Saint George inflamed compassion for them. Anticipating that he is also expected to suffer, George distributed his property to the poor, let him go to the will of his slaves, appeared to Diocletian and, declaring himself a Christian, inflicted him in cruelty and injustice. Speech George was full of strong and convincing objections against the imperial order to persecute Christians.

After unsuccessful persuasion to renounce Christ, the emperor ordered the saint of various torments. Saint George was concluded in the dungeon, where he was put back on the ground, the legs concluded in the pads, and a heavy stone was put on the chest. But Saint George courageously transferred suffering and glorified the Lord. Then the tormentors George began to be sophisticated in cruelty. They beat the holy casualties, chaired, threw in the next lime, they were forced to flee in boots with sharp nails inside. Holy Martyr Martyr all patiently tolerated. In the end, the emperor ordered the saint head with a sword. So holy sufferer went to Christ in Nikomide in 303.

Great Martyr George for courage and for the spiritual victory over the tormentors who could not make him abandon Christianity, as well as for miraculous assistance to people in danger - they call another victorious. The relics of St. George the victorious put in the Palestinian city of Lidda, in the temple wearing his name, the head was kept in Rome in the temple, also dedicated to him.

On the icons, the Great Martyr George is depicted sitting on the white horse and the kite's amazing spear. This image is based on tradition and refers to the posthumous wonders of the Holy Great Martyr George. They say that not far from the place where Saint Georgy was born in Beirut, a snake lived in Lake, who often devoured people of the terrain. That it was for the beast - a boa, a crocodile or a big lizard - unknown.

Superval inhabitants of the terrain for the thickening of the snake started regularly to give him to relegate to the young man or the maiden. Once the lot fell to the daughter of the ruler of the terrain. She was taken to the shore of the lake and tied, where she was horrified to expect the appearance of a snake.

When the beast began to approach her, suddenly appeared on a white horse a bright young man who was hit by a snake and saved the maternity. This young man was the Holy Great Martyr George. In such a wonderful phenomenon, he stopped the destruction of young men and girls within Beirut and drew the inhabitants of the country that before it was pagans.

It can be assumed that the phenomenon of St. George on the horse to protect the inhabitants from the snake, as well as the wonderful revival of the only oxtern from the farmer, served as a reason for the worship of St. George by the patron saint of cattle breeding and defender from predatory animals.

In the pre-revolutionary time on the day of memory of St. George the Victorious, residents of Russian villages for the first time after a cold winter kicked cattle on the pasture, making a solebed of the Holy Martyr with a sprinkling of houses and animals with holy water. The day of the Great Martyr George in the people is also called - "Yuriev Day," on this day, before the reign of Boris Godunov, the peasants could move towards another landowner.

Holy Great Martyr George Victorious - a patron of the military. The image of George Victorious to Kone symbolizes the victory over the devil - "Ancient Zmeim" (Rev. 12: 3, 20: 2), this image was included in the ancient coat of arms of the city of Moscow.

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Life of the Great Martyr George Victorious

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Great Martyr George was the son of rich and pious parents who attacked him in the Christian faith. He was born in the city of Beirut (in antiquity - Belit), at the foot of the Lebanese mountains.

Entering the military service, the Great Martyr George was distinguished among other warriors with his mind, courage, physical strength, military posture and beauty. Having reached the title of the thousandrrrian, St. George became the favorite of the emperor Diocletian. Diocletian was a talented ruler, but a fanatical adherent of the Roman gods. After putting it a goal to revive in the Roman Empire, he entered the story as one of the most cruel persecutors of Christians.

Having heard once at the court of an inhuman sentence of the extermination of Christians, St. George inflamed compassion for them. Anticipating that he is also expected to suffer, Georgy distributed his property to the poor, let him go to the will of his slaves, appeared to Diocletian and, declaring himself a Christian, inflicted him in cruelty and injustice. Sveta George was full of strong and convincing objections against the Imperial order to pursue Christians.

After unsuccessful persuasion, the emperor ordered the Emperor to subjected to the saint of various torments. St. Georgy was concluded in the dungeon, where he put his back on the ground, the legs concluded in the pads, and a heavy stone was put on the chest. But St. Georgy courageously transferred suffering and glorified the Lord. Then the tormentors George began to be sophisticated in cruelty. They beat the holy casualties, chaired, threw in the next lime, they were forced to flee in boots with sharp nails inside. Holy Martyr Martyr all patiently tolerated. In the end, the emperor ordered the saint head with a sword. So holy sufferer departed to Christ in Nikomide in 303.

Great Martyr George for courage and for the spiritual victory over the tormentors who could not make him abandon Christianity, as well as for miraculous assistance to people in danger - they call another victorious. The relics of St. George Victorious put in the Palestinian city of Lida, in the temple wearing his name, the head was kept in Rome in the temple, also dedicated to him.

On the icons of St. George is depicted sitting on the White Kone and the amazing pepper. This image is based on tradition and refers to the posthumous wonders of the Holy Great Martyr George. They say that not far from the place where St. George in the city of Beirut, in the lake lived snakes, which often devoured people of the terrain. That it was for the beast - a boa, a crocodile or a big lizard - unknown.

Suvervant people of the terrain for the thoughts of the snake began regularly to give him to the egument of the young man or the maiden. Once the lot fell to the daughter of the ruler of the terrain. She was taken to the shore of the lake and tied, where she was horrified to expect the appearance of a snake.

When the beast began to approach her, suddenly appeared on a white horse a bright young man who was hit by a snake and saved the maternity. This young man was the Holy Great Martyr George. In such a wonderful phenomenon, he stopped the destruction of young men and girls within Beirut and drew the inhabitants of the country that before it was pagans.

It can be assumed that the phenomenon of St. George on the horse to protect the inhabitants from the snake, as well as the wonderful revival of the only oxtern from the farmer, served as a reason for the worship of St. George by the patron saint of cattle breeding and defender from predatory animals.

In the pre-revolutionary time on the day of memory of St. George the Victorious, residents of Russian villages for the first time after a cold winter kicked cattle on the pasture, making a solebed of the Holy Martyr with a sprinkling of houses and animals with holy water. The day of the Great Martyr George in the people is also called - "Yuriev Day", on this day, before the reign of Boris Godunov, the peasants could move towards another landowner.

St. Georgy is a patron of the military. The image of George Victorious to Kone symbolizes the victory over the devil - "Ancient Zmiem" (Rev. 12, 3; 20, 2). This image was included in the ancient coat of arms of the city of Moscow.