What Is Saint George's Role As A Role Model

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Saint George was born in the third century in Palestine and was raised as a Christian. Both of his parents died when he was a young boy and was Raised an orphan. George soon traveled to Nicomedia so he could show himself to the emperor Diocletian where he soon became a solider. In the Roman army. George made it in the Roman army because his father to was a part of the Roman army. His father was of the bravest that ever fought in The Roman army. Once
George joined the army he soon went up in the ranks and he hit the title Roman tribune. After hitting the rank of Roman tribune the emperor Diocletian made everyone worship the Eden god and if they didn’t they would be sentenced to death. This is where George stood up against what he thought was right
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Another reason I chose him to be my conformation saint is because he is I what I want to be for example even when his parents died he still fought though it I want to be that strong on day to fight through a major problem like that like how he did. The other reason I chose him was because I see him as is a role model because he showed us that he really felt strongly about what he thought and didn’t fall into temptation along the way.

Saint George’s feast day is April 23 he was born in the 3rd century in Palestine. His parents both died when he has a little child which led him to a life as an orphan. When he was got older he went to Nicomedia and joined the roman army. He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a roman tribune he had it all. He has stories told about him fighting of dragons to save the princess of the town. The story was taken symbolically as it wasn’t literal. In the story it states that a dragon was attaching City so the City folk gave the dragon sheep but once they ran out of sheep, they stared giving the dragon women. Once George arrived to the city the dragon had the princess so George had to bravely fifth off the dragon. The real

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