St George as a Protector of the Dragon

Saint George was born in Cappadocia, Turkey, in the third century.  He was raised Christian as a child and moved to Palestine.  When he grew up, he became a Roman soldier, only to later to be martyred by the Romans for protesting against the killing of Christians.  He has canonized a saint in 494 AD. 

The crusaders first introduced St. George to Western Europe in the 12th century, after coming home from the Holy Land.  The Knight Templars may have been the crusaders who introduced St. George to the West, because St. George's white and red cross flags are the same colors as the Templar flags used in the crusades.

St. George became the patron saint of England during the reign of King Edward III. (1327-1377).  Edward cultivated codes of knightly chivalry and created "The Order of the Garter”.

St. George is also the patron saints of Portugal, parts of Germany, and old Aragon, a part of Spain.  There is a Greek Orthodox monastery, St. George Koudounas, outside of Constantinople in Pringkiki, "Prince Island”.  Thousands of pilgrims, both Christian and Muslim, visit this monastery on St. George's feast each year.  A miraculous icon of the saint is venerated in the monastery.  It was given to Rasoul Efenti, a Muslim man whose wife was healed by prayers attributed to St. George.  Other miracles attributed to this icon are healing the lame, the mute, and barren women. 

St. George's churches are often built on rivers, like how St. Michael the Arch-Angel's churches are built on high mountain ridges.  These saints are both dragon killers and their churches are built on the ley-lines “dragon-lines”.  St. Michael's churches are built on the male dragon-line, while St. George's churches are built on the female dragon-line.  Ley-lines distribute fertility throughout the land.  These dragon lines are like the meridian points in our bodies, known in acupuncture, but on a larger scale within the Earth's body.  One of Saint George's miracles is granting fertility to women. In St. George's legends, he becomes the protector of women, and his blessings of granting fertility to barren women reveal this saint's connection with the female dragon line.

There are bread crumbs to be explored in the legends and traditions of St. George. The European legends portray St. George as a Knight, but he was a Roman Soldier in truth.  One legend tells of a tale of a Princess that is being offered to appease a dragon.  Saint George rides into the village on his white horse and offers to save the Princess from her plight.  He kills the dragon with his spear.  The dragon's blood is spilled on the Earth, and from this very spot, a red rose bush grew.  The king offers the saint his daughter but St. George refuses the king's daughter's hand because he needs to go built churches and share the Christian faith.  This story has become a tradition in Catalonia, Spain, where St. George has been the patron saint since the 15th century.  During the feast of St. George, on April twenty-third, men offer women red roses, and women in return give books to men. 

The word “royal-blood-line”, comes from a very ancient pre-Christian tradition of burying the King of the Tribes on the ley-lines.  Ley-lines in Europe have three types of stones: fertility stones, dolmens used for ceremony, and the king's tomb stone.  The kings of Merovingian lineage were called dragon kings because they were connected to the ley of the land.  You can find this connection in their names, whose titles include the word “Worm”.  The word worm was another name for the dragon lines that run through the land.  The dragon-lines are found in landscape formations, stones ridges, and Earth mounds.  Some of the king’s titles include:

Thuringbert of Worm Gheigau (715-741 AD),  Robert II of Hesbaye Count of Worms of Pheingau and Duke of Hesbaye (770-807 AD),  and Rutpert III von Wormsgau Count of Worms and Rheingau (795-834 AD).  All are examples of the Kings of the Merovingian Linage that were connected to the land.

The Red Rose of St. Georges dragon-slaying might be a bleed-through of this older tradition when the kings were connected to the land.  The symbol of the blood of the dragon growing a Red Rose in the legend of St. George just may be based on the memories of the Merovingian Dragon King's bloodline, known as the Rose-line.  St. Dagobert, the last full-blooded Merovingian King, was murdered December 23, 679, in the Forest of Woevre by his Godson under the orders of Pepin of Heristal, one of the mayors of the Merovingian kingdom.  Dagobert was resting, after a hunt, on an oak tree, when his Godson stabbed him in the eye with a spear.  The Forest of Woevre comes from an older Gaulish word, “Woevre”, which is the fertile land between the male and female dragon lines.  Thus, Dagobert's murder ended the Merovingian Dragon Kings' reign and was soon after replaced with the Carolingian Dynasty.  But the bloodline continued through the female lineage of the Merovingian Princesses.  The women were married off to the Carolingian Kings to legitimize their claim to the throne.  The Merovingian female line, through arranged marriages, spread out to many different crown heads of Europe. 

Allier's wine country, found in Central France, also has a tradition on St. George's day. If the frost has not yet destroyed the leaves on the grapevines, they wash the feet of a statue of St. George with wine and wipe it with a soft cloth.  But if there has been damage to the vines, they still wash the feet of St. George, but they wipe the statue's feet with a rough cloth.  The Spanish wine Sangria also means blood.  Sangreal, in Spanish, actually is translated into the word "real blood”.  Sangreal is also referred to as the Holy Grail.  These legends are the whispers of the bloodline of Christ and Mary Magdalene seeding Merovingian Lineage.

The Holy Grail legends were first written in the South of France by Chretien de Troyes, who was influenced by the Courts of Love's troubadour traditions.  The 12th century Courts of Love were created by the influence of Elenor of Aquitaine and her daughter Marie de Champagne, who were part of the Merovingian female bloodline. These courts offered high ideals for Knights to perform chivalrous deeds dedicated to the Ladies of the Courts.  It provided one remedy for the loveless arranged marriages for noble women.

St. George's legend fits perfectly into the weaving of these Arthurian legends brought to England.  Elenor of Aquitaine's first husband was Louis the 7th, who also had a direct bloodline to the Merovingian Kings.  She later married King Henry II of England. Thus these legends have deep roots both in France and England.  Elenor's daughter of Louie the VII, Marie de Champagne, cultivated the troubadour tradition in poetry, music, and storytelling within the Courts of France

Thus St. George, a Knightly Saint, grows into a defender in battle and a protector of women.  Saint George is prayed to for courage and spiritual warrior-ship.  He is a destroyer of evil and answer prayers of physical healing and fertility.  St. George is known to answer the prayers of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, and anyone who has faith in his intervention.

From Raylene Abbott's New Book

Novena's for Now

Copyrite 2020

Note:  St. George and St. Micheal as Medieval archetypes which were made into dragon slayers. The Church created a dualist dogma that separated the people from the Earth. When we begin to understand that the Ley-Lines are actually a very natural and powerful grid where the land is most fertile.  This grid is considered Sacred by the Ancients. It might be high time to change the archetypes of St Micheal and St George as Environmental Protectors. 

Dragon Line Point St. George, California

Look closely you will see the head

 of the dragon in the landscape.

This point empties into the Pacific Ocean 

there are two springs here both with iron

 deposits in the water turning the water orange brown.

Where there are dragon-lines fresh water springs

are also found.