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Saint George George was born around 280 AD. in Cappadocia, present-day Türkiye, of Persian father and Cappadocian mother. It was these parents who raised him in the Christian religion. He became a soldier and enlisted in the army of Emperor Diocletian, where he became one of his bodyguards.
But the emperor massacres the Christians and tries to turn the young man away from his faith. When he refused, he was imprisoned, beaten and tortured in every possible way.

The legend of Saint George and the dragon is told in the Legenda Aurea, the collection of hagiographic biographies composed by Jacopo da Varazze, bishop of Genoa, in medieval times. Salem, in Libya, there was a pond inhabited by a huge, always hungry dragon, which the inhabitants fed with beasts and men or women chosen by lot. One day, the girl must be given to pasture.
This day Saint George appears at the gates of the city, promising to save it if the inhabitants convert. They accepted and Saint George fought and tamed the dragon.