It was the third century when George was battled the dragon outside of Silene (Libya).

After growing up in eastern Turkey, in Cappadocia and becoming a soldier in the Roman army, George was converted to Christianity. He started travelling across the land spreading the word of the god. Upon arriving in Silene he came across a princess bound to a stake awaiting the arrival of the most feared creature in the land, the dragon.

The dragon a huge, winged, tailed, olive-green scaled beast, had emerged from the swamps near Silene many months before. It had attacked the land with its poisonous breath, a poison so strong it killed everything it enveloped. Trying to stop the dragon the farmers in the area started feeding it two sheep a day. This kept the dragon at bay until they had run out of sheep. To stop the dragon destroying the rest of the land, the king of Silene had decreed to sacrifice one child a day to the dragon, in the hope that someone or something would help his country defeat this almighty beast. It was the morning on which the king had been forced to sacrifice his own child when George arrived.

George, St (died about 303), Christian martyr and patron saint of England, born in Cappadocia (eastern Asia Minor). His life is obscured by legend, but his martyrdom at Lydda, Palestine, is generally considered a matter of historical fact, testified to by two early Syrian church inscriptions and by a canon of Pope Gelasius I, dated 494, in which St George is mentioned as one whose name was held in reverence. The most popular of the legends that have grown up around him relates his encounter with the dragon. A pagan town in Libya was victimized by a dragon (representing the devil), which the inhabitants first attempted to placate by offerings of sheep, and then by the sacrifice of various members of their community. The daughter of the king (representing the church) was chosen by lot and was taken out to await the coming of the monster, but George arrived, killed the dragon, and converted the community to Christianity. In 1222 the Council of Oxford ordered that his feast, on April 23, be celebrated as a national festival, and in the 14th century he became the patron saint of England and of the Order of the Garter, despite the absence of any historical connection between him and England.