What is Saint George?
{{no sources|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = [[Saint]] | honorific_suffix = of [[Lydda]] | name = George | birth_date = 3rd century | birth_place = [[Cappadocia (Roman province)|Cappadocia]], [[Roman Empire]] | death_date = 23 April 303 | death_place = [[Lydda]], [[Syria Palaestina]], Roman Empire<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-George |title=Saint George |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |edition=Online |access-date=21 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm |title=St. George |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |access-date=21 July 2022}}</ref> | feast_day = {{indented plainlist| * '''23 April''' ([[Saint George's Day]]) * '''6 May''' ([[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]] when [[Julian calendar|Julian]] date is observed) * '''23 Parmouti''' ([[Coptic calendar]], 1 May)<ref>Otto Friedrich August Meinardus, ''Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity'' (1999), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Cmey73GtfuUC&pg=PA315 p. 315] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113181915/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cmey73GtfuUC&pg=PA315 |date=13 November 2022 }}.</ref> * '''Saturday before third Sunday of [[Exaltation of the Cross]]''' ([[Armenian Church]] calendar)<ref>''Domar: the calendrical and liturgical cycle of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church'', Armenian Orthodox Theological Research Institute, 2002, pp. 504–505</ref> }} | venerated_in = {{plainlist| * [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] * [[Catholic Church]] * [[Oriental Orthodoxy]] * [[Church of the East]] * [[Anglican Communion]] * [[Lutheranism]] * [[Umbanda]] * [[Druze]] faith<ref>{{cite book|title=The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700|url=https://archive.org/details/holylandoxfordar0000murp_q1w4| first= Jerome|last= Murphy-O'Connor|year= 2008| isbn= 9780191647666| page =[https://archive.org/details/holylandoxfordar0000murp_q1w4/page/n230 205] |publisher=OUP Oxf