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Factual errors: St George was born in Roman Capadocia 3rd century; Turkey would not exist for another 800 years. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-George https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HZm9AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hE28CwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y St George lived in Lod, then Roman Syria, now Israel. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ABkgU0GOBbcC&pg=PA129&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://web.archive.org/web/20121023070735/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/escurs/TS/02_TSen.html His death as stated was because he refused to renounce Christianity. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1nxtEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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