Snippets about St George

From an article about St George’s Church, Venice, Catharine Morris, The Times 27 March 2009

There is also, most engagingly, the annual “Great Dragon Hunt”, which takes participants all over Venice – and across the Grand Canal in a gondola – in search of paintings and reliefs of St George and the dragon. Success is rewarded with a “fine Venetian certificate recording your achievement”.

In 2008 English Heritage commissioned Brian Patten to write a poem for St George’s Day:

The True Dragon

St George was out walking
He met a dragon on a hill,
It was wise and wonderful
Too glorious to kill

Read the full poem on the Today programme website