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St. George's Church, Sfântu Gheorghe. St. George's Church ( Romanian: Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 1 Piața Andrei Șaguna, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. It is dedicated to Saint George . The town’s Romanian community had a wooden church as early as 1750. In 1790, the authorities of the Principality of ...
The eparchy is the only diocese of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church outside Romania and is directly exempt to the Holy See. In 2005, Holy Resurrection Monastery was transferred from the Ruthenian Catholic Church to the Eparchy of St. George at the request of the monks and with the consent of the Holy See.
The date of St. George's Day presented in the book, 5 May (on the Western Gregorian calendar), is St. George's Day as observed by the Eastern Orthodox churches of that era. The belief is that moroi (living vampires), witches, and other dark creatures must gather all the evil power they can between midnight and the dawn of the saint's holy day ...
Sfântu Gheorghe is one of the oldest urban settlements in Transylvania, the town first having been documented in 1332. The town takes its name from Saint George, the patron of the local church. Historically, it was also known in German as Sankt Georgen. The "sepsi" prefix ( sebesi → sepsi, meaning "of Sebes") refers to the area which the ...
New St. George Church ( Romanian: Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe Nou) is a Romanian Orthodox church located in Bucharest, Romania, along the city center's main north–south thoroughfare, where it intersects the Lipscani area. It is dedicated to Saint George. The church is associated with Constantin Brâncoveanu: it was built during his reign and ...
Saint George Killing the Dragon, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer (1501/4) In a legend, Saint George —a soldier venerated in Christianity —defeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers. When they ran out of livestock and trinkets for the dragon, they started giving up a human tribute once a year.
Saint George is the patron saint of England in a tradition established in the Tudor period, based in the saint's popularity during the times of the Crusades and the Hundred Years' War . Veneration of the saint in folk religion declined in the 18th century. Attempts to revive the celebration of Saint George's Day (23 April) as an expression of ...
Saint George's Church ( Romanian: Biserica Sfântu Gheorghe din Streisângeorgiu) is a Romanian Orthodox church in Streisângeorgiu village, Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania . The church was begun at the end of the 11th century and has a simplified Romanesque nave. There is a bell-tower on the eastern side, built of stone blocks held ...