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The Cult of St George in Medieval England by Jonathan Good

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By Jonathan Good

Lately, St George has loved a modest revival as a in particular English nationwide image. yet how grew to become the consumer saint of britain within the first position has constantly been a secret. He used to be no longer English, nor was once his central shrine there - the standard standards for nationwide patronage; but his prestige and status have eclipsed all others. as a substitute, it was once Edward III's use of the saint in his wars opposed to the French that truly demonstrated him as a customer and protector of the king. in contrast to different such saints, besides the fact that, George was once enthusiastically followed by means of different English humans to suggest their club within the "community of the realm". This e-book lines the origins and development of his cult, arguing that, particularly after Edward's demise, George got here to symbolize a "good" politics (in this example, the shared prosecution of a struggle with spoils for everybody) and will be used to rebuke next kings for his or her bad governance. such a lot kings got here to gain this truth, and honored St George with a view to turn out their worthiness to carry their workplace. This political size of the cult by no means thoroughly displaced the devotional one, however it used to be so robust that St George survived the Reformation as a countrywide image - one who grows ever extra vital within the wake of devolution and the restoration of a particularly English identification.

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George. Nevertheless, it is worth examining because it has implications for the development of St. George’s cult. The earliest extant manuscript of the George Passion, the so-called Vienna Palimpsest, is in Greek and dates from the mid-fifth century;9 fleshing it out with later but closely related sources10 produces a story in which the Persian Emperor Datianus issues an edict calling together seventy-two subordinate kings and threatening the Christians in his realm with torture. George of Cappadocia, a captain in the military, gives all he has to the poor, arrives at court and confesses his faith in Christ.

Org/terms ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT AND ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND 37 Richard in Tudor times. Nonetheless, Richard did have some contact with the saint while on crusade: he married his queen Berengaria in St. George’s chapel at Limassol, Cyprus,65 and although he may not have rebuilt St.

58 The story of the appearance at Antioch was included in most narrative accounts of the crusades, but another tradition of George’s participation in them is found in the Historia Hierosolymitana of Raymond of Agiles. Raymond tells that once Antioch had been taken, a figure appeared to him and demanded that he take the bones of four saints, buried in the town, to Jerusalem. The four coffins were eventually found and carried off, but a fifth, which the crusaders failed to recognize, was left behind.

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