A statue of St. George by Alexander Scott Carter, in St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Huron St., Toronto (photo by my friend Bruce Patterson).

From my graduate school colleague, Lieutenant Colonel Lachlan Mead of the Australian army.

Family friend Laine Rosin took this photo on a trip to Ethiopia.

Allen and Unwin printer’s mark.

This is from the spine of a volume in the great Victoria County History series.

My five-year-old found this Russian fifty kopek coin last summer. “Look daddy,” she said. “St. George!” That’s my girl!

Bruce Patterson took this photo in a Catholic church in London.

My colleague Pam Wilson took this photo in Barcelona.

This sculpture of St. George is carved on the facade of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. I took this photo in 2006.

A war memorial in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, taken by Dr. Anne Good.

I acquired this label on an airplane once. I like it especially because dragons are associated with water.

If there is Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey, then why shouldn’t there be English whisky too? And what better a character to represent it than St. George?

One of my favorite representations of St. George comes from shortly after the Russian Revolution, when Christian saints had not been entirely eradicated, but could be repurposed for Communist ends. Here St. Trotsky kills the Counter-Revolutionary dragon, complete with top hat. From Wikipedia.

From my friend Chris Berard, via Facebook. Happy St. George’s Day!