The area’s grand staircase premiered on Jan. 25 at St. George’s inaugural Dragon’s Tail Stair Climb Challenge. Scores of entrants showed up to compete and test their speed and endurance.

The latter commands a prominent spot in the Wilkins building – although The Mond Crucifixion (c. 1502-03), by Raphael, and George Stubbs’s Whistlejacket (c. 1762) still boss the longest ...

On May 6, Bulgaria commemorates one of its most significant national holidays – the Day of Saint George the Victorious, also known as Gergyovden, and the official Day of the Bulgarian Army. The ...

Celebrate St George's Day in Trafalgar Square. Image: Shutterstock. 23 April is St George's Day, the day of England's patron saint (not to mention patron saint of Catalonia, Ethiopia and various ...

The monarch begged for her life to be spared but to no avail. She was offered to the dragon, but then Saint George appeared and faced the dragon, protecting himself with the sign of the Cross. He ...

Raphael portrayed Saint George slaying the dragon in an oil painting in 1506. George trouncing the dragon was a fixture in the Christian visual tradition for centuries. Photograph by Sepia Times ...

It can be a lot to keep track of who is who and which dragon belongs to who and all that in George R.R. Martin’s ... Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Braveheart, The Saint, Face/Off, Alien vs ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Fountain of Saint George and the Dragon, Vienna, by Anton Dominik Bitter Von Fernkorn ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 68 No. 14 ...

The next part of George’s explosion in popularity was thanks to the Crusaders, who learned of this saint, by now associated with soldiers and equestrians, on their campaigns to the Holy Land.

The other works comprise embossed metal sheets featuring depictions of the Virgin Mary and child, Saint Michael vanquishing Satan, and Saint George slaying the dragon.