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The Golden Legend: Selections

Jacobus de Voragine

Form
Form Religious Text
Year
Year 1260
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 250

A dragon coils by a Libyan city and takes two sheep a day, then a sheep and a child, until George rides up. Christopher wades a river with a boy on his shoulders who grows heavier at every step until he is carrying the weight of the world.

and drew out his sword and garnished him with the sign of the cross, and rode hardily against the dragon
The Golden Legend: Selections, Jacobus de Voragine

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