Biografii narative ale sfinţilor: Sfântul Gheorghe
The legends regarding the lives of saints: Saint George

Traditions and belief

Summary/Abstract: The legends regarding the lives of saints remain useful symbolist proofs of these characters, having both beneficial and evil aspects, therefore contrasting, as if this patterns coincide in two totally opposite characters. The general theme requires a triangulation of different perspectives: the theological dimension, temporal dimension (where a segment can be shaped into sacred time), the echoes of folklore. These different perspectives are shaping various representations of the character, all of them offering the opportunity to bring the saint’s personality to light. There are so many traditions and beliefs related to the life of St. George that a single work would not be enough to comprise them all. Therefore, we try to sum up a few of them, some that have already been discussed and analyzed and other that are less known. It is important to know that everything related to St. George belongs to a distant past, preceding Christianity and having borrowed practices even from ancient empires that have surfaced also in some of our communities as a result of ethnical mixture.

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