Which St. George? Every Saint Named George

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Which St. George? 9 saints and blesseds named George have full entries in this encyclopedia. They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, arranged century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. George from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. George, Blessed George Beesley and Blessed George Haydock.

4th century

  • St. George died c. 303 · Feast day April 23

    St. George was a Christian soldier martyred at Lydda in Palestine (today Lod, Israel), probably around 303 under Diocletian.

10th century

  • St. George El Mozahem died 959 · Feast day June 26

    St. George El Mozahem (Girgis El-Mezahem) was a young man of the Nile Delta, the son of a Muslim father and a Christian mother, who was secretly baptized, hunted from town to town and finally beheaded at Damira in 959.

15th century

  • St. George of Sofia 1407–1437 · Feast day March 26

    St. George of Sofia, called the Elder to tell him from two later martyrs of the same name, was a Christian soldier born in Sofia in 1407.

16th century

  • St. George of Kratovo 1497–1515 · Feast day February 11

    St. George of Kratovo, also called St. George the New of Sofia, was a young goldsmith from Kratovo, in today's North Macedonia, who was burned alive in Sofia on February 11, 1515, at eighteen, because he would not give…

  • Blessed George Haydock 1556–1584 · Feast day February 12

    Blessed George Haydock (1556–1584) was a Lancashire priest, trained at Douai, who was arrested almost as soon as he landed, held two years in the Tower, and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn on February 12, 1584,…

  • Blessed George Beesley c. 1562–1591 · Feast day July 1

    Blessed George Beesley (about 1562–1591) was a priest from Goosnargh in Lancashire, ordained at Reims in 1587.

  • Blessed George Swallowell died 1594 · Feast day July 26

    Blessed George Swallowell was a schoolmaster and Protestant reader at Houghton-le-Spring who became a Catholic, said so from the pulpit and was imprisoned.

20th century

  • St. George of Drama 1901–1959 · Feast day November 4

    St. George of Drama, born Athanasios Karslidis in Pontus in 1901, was a Greek Orthodox monk and priest who survived prison and execution under the Soviets, came to Greece with Pontic refugees in 1929 and spent thirty…

  • St. George Preca 1880–1962 · Feast day July 26

    St. George Preca (1880–1962), whom the Maltese call Dun Ġorġ, was a priest of Malta who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, the MUSEUM, whose lay members teach the catechism.

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