St. George Rescues the Princess Poster

Image Credit: St. George Rescues the Princess from a Fearsome Dragon, an oversized chromolithograph (No. 56) printed in Germany, original publisher unknown, from the designer's private collection of religious ephemera. + The extra-large format of the image suggests that it was printed for inclusion in a sumptuous late 19th-century folio Lives of the Saints. The bottom margin has the saint's name in French (ST. GEORGES), German (HLG. GEORG), English (ST. GEORGE), Spanish (S. JORGE), Italian (S. GIORGIO), and in the Cyrillic alphabet using several archaic letters not reproducible here. Suffice it to say, the Cyrillic transliterated into the 'modern' Church Slavonic script reads Святый Георгій Победоносец and means St. George the Victory-bearer (or, more colloquially, the Victorious). In Eastern Orthodoxy, this honorific title signifies St. George's victory over evil and his triumphant martyrdom. + Feast: April 23