The Original Story of St George and the Dragon

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3 жыл бұрын

A reading of the original English translation of the "Golden Legend" of Saint George and the Dragon, translated by William Caxton. The original text was written in Latin and part of a compendium titled "Legenda Aurea" by Jacobus de Varagine, where he wrote about the lives of the saints. This book was very influential in Medieval Europe, and Saint George is the patron saint of many countries and cities.
Second Song in video: "Battle of the Creek" by Alexander Nakarada, used with perimission. Thank you!
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Special Thanks to Adam Pelah and Annalisa Genovese for providing their voice talent.

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@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy listening to the Legend of Saint George and the Dragon! Subtitles in the original text in English, Spanish and Latin are available! ¡Espero que disfrutes escuchando la Leyenda de San Jorge y el Dragón! ¡Los subtítulos en el texto original en inglés, español y latín ya están disponibles!

@lw3646 10 ай бұрын

Weirdly in so many images he's often depicted as an English Medival Knight in Shinning Armour but in reality Saint George was a Roman Solider born in the middle east and probably of Greek descent, he may have been in the roman cavalry and he was killed for under one of the last great persecutions in the Roman Empire. In terms of his armour amd clothimg though he'd have looked very different from the popular image of him.

@HNUmaker 2 жыл бұрын

I’m starting to think that the “dragon” that St. George slew might have been a crocodile.

@blackwing4337 Жыл бұрын

it was props a really really big fuck off croc which is why they thought it was a dragon...or who knows it could have been a dragon ya never know

@michaelhaywood8262 Жыл бұрын

He lived in Lydda, [which was near the modern city of tel Aviv]. He was in the Roman Army and may have had a tour of duty in Egypt, where he may have slain a large, aggressive Nile Crocodile.

@ZachKyle-sv1cj 10 ай бұрын

A lot of oxen for a croc???

@daan8336 3 ай бұрын

There was no dragon. This whole story about him saving a princess is fake. He is often depicted as slaying a dragon, because he conquered evil, and the dragon is meant to depict the evil.

@BillSikes. 2 ай бұрын

@@daan8336 Personally I think the Dragon is a metaphorical depiction of Roman Paganism, and the Legend itself was deliberately designed to be applicable forever more, which it most certainly is, in times of great hardship there's no better Saint to invoke than Saint George ✝️🙏

@conradgilbert2365 Жыл бұрын

Praise god,amen Thank you Jesus Thank you holy spirit Thank you Saint George Thank you all angels,all saints,all guardian angels,all arch angels and all heavenly hosts,amen

@borichamo Жыл бұрын

Amen

@annalisag16 3 жыл бұрын

*St. George slays dragon* This metal enough for you?

@---ee9nc 3 жыл бұрын

weirdly reminds me very much of Shrek

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

The Legend of Saint George and the Dragon has influenced so many works, from The Hobbit to Minecraft, Mario, etc. The cultural legacy is immense. It is a powerful archetype, has been important and will continue to be.

@annalisag16 3 жыл бұрын

My princess dreams have come true because of the great Borichamo

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

Much obliged

@hajahdcuhddhdhshshh2202 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful story❤❤🙏♥️🙏

@miriamcasper9727 3 жыл бұрын

Hermosa ilustracion y bella narrativa. Felucitaciones Adrian Borichamo

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

¡Gracias!

@holycastillo2042 3 жыл бұрын

Hermosa e inspiradora narración, nos muestra que los males que nos acechan siempre serán vencidos con fe en Cristo Jesús y el actuar bien no sólo para mí sino para el prójimo. Felicitaciones!!!

@TheTianamen Жыл бұрын

i love my Saint protector Saint George

@dru7277 Жыл бұрын

Saint George represents White people overthrow of black Europe

@g00gle- 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for upload

@tammyleederwhitaker7697 2 жыл бұрын

Spring in South Carolina has healing properties also. Protect me St. George.

@peterzotti6430 2 жыл бұрын

A dragon in stagnant water sounds a lot like a crocodile 🐊 to me... Also St. George couldn't have been a knight... Coz knights are a European medieval thing and st. George was born in Turkey and lived mostly in the middle east... Died in Palestine... Some say he was a roman soldier... Not a knight.. but whatevers..

@topaze9094 Жыл бұрын

c'est sont signe astrologique toujours sagitaire

@plynch8787 2 жыл бұрын

God Bless You for this Video,

@borichamo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@adampelah6063 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid!

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for being the voice of St George!

@DadTheGreat9ine6ix3ree Жыл бұрын

So the dragon was the reptilians

@valor101arise 2 жыл бұрын

interesting.,,, so the pagan practicing people were giving human sacrifices to a water dragon....like a Nessie.

@sgauden02 3 жыл бұрын

You know, the Romans, and many ancient peoples actually called just about any large man-eating lizard a "dragon" back then. It's entirely possible that the "real" dragon that St. George slew (if there is some truth to this story that is), was just an abnormally large, and aggressive crocodile, which would make sense considering that the "dragon" lived in a lake. We all know how stories tend to get embellished over time, and after St. George's martyrdom, his story got bigger.

@holycastillo2042 3 жыл бұрын

Que hermoso relato, una invitación a no temer a los males que nos acechan porque Dios es más poderoso que dragón alguno, felicitaciones!!!

@SowloFlame 2 жыл бұрын

It could well be, but we need to be cautious about those ''rational'' interpretations because they are missing the point of those legends. The legend is symbolic so it doesn't matter if it is ''real'' in the historic sense of the term. The dragon symbolises the lower soul which is full of passion and lust. Those are usually hidden in our unconscious, which is why the dragon is said to reside outside the city (conscious part of ourselves). But during our lives, if we never shed light on this lower soul, it slowly gnaws at us (the dragon first requires sheeps, then men, then the princess) until it arrives at the very heart of our soul, which is here represented by the princess. At this point, we must fight on with all our will and strenght (St George) the dragon because if we do not, our soul will be completely engulfed in darkness. And surprise ! Once the dragon is defeated, he becomes docile and weak ; that is because once the lower soul is tamed, it becomes obedient to the higher soul and is actually revealed as a source of energy and creativity. That is symbolised by the fact that a church was built upon the place where the dragon is said to have died and that a ''fountain of living water'' sourdeth there. All the city converts to christianity also : Light has defeated darkness, or better even, darkness transformed into Light.

@sgauden02 2 жыл бұрын

@@SowloFlame I know what St. George stands for, and I know all about his death, and legend. I was just speculating, because symbolic or not, there is some truth in legends.

@Beugsie 2 жыл бұрын

He was martyred? How?

@sgauden02 2 жыл бұрын

@@Beugsie The Romans killed him for refusing to renounce Christianity.

@dilipniraj6521 2 жыл бұрын

The 🐉 might be a gaint 🐍 like a python

@---ee9nc 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏!!

@lw3646 3 ай бұрын

Interesting no specific mention of him in the 354 DEPOSITIO MARTIRVM.

@peshkov1234 2 жыл бұрын

Great story, but how do you explain the fact that the dragon very often is pictured to be on a leash held by a fair lady. Was the dragon a domestic animal of the princess? Or was the dragon her guard animal and St. George actually killed the animal to get the princess? St. George is actually now on the coat of arms of Moscow. And many say that the symbolism behind is the war with China, that was fought and won by Europeans at that time.

@borichamo 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Thank you for watching and enjoying it.The legend is very old and I don’t believe the legend was making any metaphors for China at the time, especially as this legend came out of the Middle Ages. Any meaning we can attach now is built up over years of tradition and modern metaphors. Perhaps Russia put him in their coat of arms with this in mind? As for the leash, the original story depicts the fair princess as being able to subdue the dragon, who was her captor, not that it was domestic pet necessarily.

@peshkov1234 2 жыл бұрын

@@borichamo are you suggesting that China didn't exist in the Middle Ages? 🙂

@gordianknot6867 Жыл бұрын

Seems like there is some relation to the whore of Babylon and the beast.

@umwha 5 ай бұрын

What war between Europe and China are you talking about?

@topaze9094 Жыл бұрын

cette histoire est bien plus ancienne que jésus qui était aussi l'ennemi du dragon Georges en occident on l'ecrit avec un G mais normalement ça s’écrit avec un J ou Y

@chiloandchepo 9 ай бұрын

Jesus was an enemy of the dragon??

@tammyleederwhitaker7697 2 жыл бұрын

Music... Space... Time

@umwha 5 ай бұрын

I didn’t know the princess put her girdle on its neck and walked it though town. Isn’t that the same as the story of Martha (Lazarus sister) who tamed a dragon with her girdle and walked it through the town to the shock of the towns people? Same story origin?

@Cjvogue 5 ай бұрын

Something seems fake right?

@gjokee_11 2 жыл бұрын

iam named George

@borichamo 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@KnightGeneral Жыл бұрын

I believe the dragon was a morphing demon since it ate children and women.

@yaz5413 2 ай бұрын

Does that make St George of Turkish dissent

@goosee7776 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like familiar story' in revelation but old Torra with oxen...ahh Sleeping buty and Robin hood...mix together kinda'

@elliotfong8794 Жыл бұрын

The King should have sacrificed his daughter like he said he would sacrifice the people.

@infinitybladefan2412 2 жыл бұрын

Saint George spoke Greek

@csapienza001 3 жыл бұрын

A post-Incarnation return to societal level human sacrifice, so highly regarded that not even the sovereign king could protect his daughter from it. What does it mean 🤔🤔🤔

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

Big brain 🤔

@borichamo 3 жыл бұрын

Always more layers there are to a story

@expand9487 2 жыл бұрын

Is this in the Bible?

@valor101arise 2 жыл бұрын

no the Holy Bible ends after John saw the Revelation of Jesus on the Isle of Patmos around 70 AD, give or take some years. It's exact date is unknown. Some argue before and some after. This story occurred over one hundred years after the Holy Scriptures were canonized. I assume St. George may have been after Constantine because of the Red Cross on his shield. Constantine, after seeing the Cross in a vision, put a red cross on his shield and won the battles. He attributed his victory to the cross and Christ, and thus "Christianized Rome". However, a lot of paganism was adopted by that switch. The true Jewishness of Christianity was slowly lost. and much of the "traditions" mentioned in this story and currently in the catholic church echo that switch. it looks similar to the pagan ways of sun worship during ancient roman times, and a roman temple.

@expand9487 2 жыл бұрын

@@valor101arise The bible is not written hundreds of years after Christ. It is written from the testimony of eyewitnesses. It is an account of different people and to know the truth you just have to cross examine all of them. of course Constantine and others came after many years of Christian persecution.

@teefrankenstein4340 Жыл бұрын

I believe “The Dragon” is actually a physical representation of Pagans.

@johnpettigrew83 Жыл бұрын

Our own internal gluttony and addictions.

@dru7277 Жыл бұрын

The Dragon were the black rulers of Europe

@Moonlight-u8u 10 ай бұрын

@@dru7277 evidence?

@user-anglosaxonwarrior 4 ай бұрын

Evidence for any of the b.s. story's @@Moonlight-u8u

@raccoonresident5760 2 жыл бұрын

Ya not so much about a dragon, it’s about a military force, and a Muslim prince. Lol taming the masses for the spread of RC. Worked too. Marine that. Persia giving us another religion. Wow what’s in store for the future.

@zebibbelayneh562 2 жыл бұрын

i like the story. but i am Ethiopian we have his real story from the date he born up to the date he die. we celebrate his day in every 12 month in day 23. and he is the one who defeat Italian in the battle of Adwa. unless St.George we did not defeat them. and they even say that there were a young white man with white horse in the sky with sword he fight with them. they fight us with gun but we only fight with sword how can we defeat them with out his help.

@rahelmokonen7955 2 жыл бұрын

በአለም ኣደባባይ ላይ ስትተረተሪ ኣታፍሪም ወይ!? በቃ የኣማራ ልክስክስነት እንደዚህ ኣለም የይወቀው!? የደፍተራ ነገር ከዚህ የበለጠ የላችውም ቲሽ

@valor101arise 2 жыл бұрын

friend...this story is much, much older than the battle of Adwa.

@topaze9094 Жыл бұрын

il était noir en Éthiopie on voie sa représentation sur la dernière photo

@jesuslovesyou1497 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus love you, he died on the cross for you, accept him as your lord and savior he can change everything. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (John 3:16) But you must repent too. From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near. (Matthew 4:17):

@muzismemoir8835 Жыл бұрын

St George is black ⚫

@lw3646 11 ай бұрын

Born in Asia Minor to Greek romans, his mother was from Syria . The roman empire stretched from Britain to Algeria but they really didn't care what race you were.

@icxc777 8 ай бұрын

Cappadocian Greek; not a Bantu