[SK]
Vitajte vo Svätom Jure, mestečku pomenovanom po našom patrónovi Svätom Jurajovi.
Legenda Svätom Jurajovi a drakovi
Najväčší význam pre poznanie svätého Juraja v stredovekej Európe malo dielo s názvom Legenda Aurea. Dielo napísal Jakub de Voragine medzi rokmi 1250 – 1260, opisujúc skutky prvých mučeníkov. Samotný príbeh je však dosť romantizujúci; objavuje sa tu napríklad drak, čo v starších verziách legendy nebolo. Podľa legendy „...pochádzal svätý Juraj z urodzenej rodiny z Kapadócie. Neskôr prišiel do mesta Silena v Lýbii, kde drak – miestna pohroma – naháňal strach širokému okoliu a otravoval svojím dychom každého, kto sa k nemu priblížil. Ako výkupné dávali ľudia drakovi každý deň dve ovce. Keď mu však dali poslednú ovcu, drak si vyžiadal ľudské obete. Tie mal podľa dohody obyvateľov určiť lós. Lós padol na kráľovu dcéru, ktorá šla na smrť oblečená ako nevesta. Juraj však zaútočil na draka, prebodol ho svojím oštepom a celkom krotkého ho viedol spútaného princezniným podväzkom. Juraj draka doviedol do mesta, kde povedal ľuďom, aby sa nebáli – ak uveria v Ježiša a dajú sa pokrstiť, oslobodí ich od príšery. Kráľ a ľud súhlasili. Juraj zabil draka a 15 000 ľudí sa dalo pokrstiť. Juraj neprijal žiadnu odmenu, ale poprosil kráľa, aby udržiaval kostoly, mal v úcte kňazov a preukazoval súcit s chudobnými.“ Legenda pokračuje rozprávaním o Jurajových utrpeniach a o jeho smrti.
Zdroje / Viac sa o Svätom Jurajovi môžete dočítať:
https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj_(svätec)
https://historyweb.dennikn.sk/clanky/detail/svaty-juraj-krestan-bojujuci-s-drakom
https://www.zivotopisysvatych.sk/juraj/
[EN]
Welcome to the Svätý Jur, a town named after our patron Saint George.
Legend of the Saint George and the Dragon
In the well-known version from Jacobus da Varagine's Legenda aurea (The Golden Legend, 1260s), the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place somewhere he called "Silene", in Libya.
Silene in Libya was plagued by a venom-spewing dragon dwelling in a nearby pond, poisoning the countryside. To prevent it from affecting the city itself, the people offered it two sheep daily, then a man and a sheep, and finally their children and youths, chosen by lottery. One time the lot fell on the king's daughter. The king offered all his gold and silver to have his daughter spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.
Saint George by chance arrived at the spot. The princess tried to send him away, but he vowed to remain. The dragon emerged from the pond while they were conversing. Saint George made the Sign of the Cross and charged it on horseback, seriously wounding it with his lance. He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle (zona), and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a "meek beast" on a leash.
The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the populace. Saint George offered to kill the dragon if they consented to become Christians and be baptized. Fifteen thousand men including the king of Silene converted to Christianity. George then killed the dragon, beheading it with his sword, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. The king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George on the site where the dragon died and a spring flowed from its altar with water that cured all disease. Only the Latin version involves the saint striking the dragon with the spear, before killing it with the sword.
The Golden Legend narrative is the main source of the story of Saint George and the Dragon as received in Western Europe, and is therefore relevant for Saint George as patron saint of England. The princess remains unnamed in the Golden Legend version, and the name "Sabra" is supplied by Elizabethan era writer Richard Johnson in his Seven Champions of Christendom (1596). In the work, she is recast as a princess of Egypt. This work takes great liberties with the material, and makes St. George marry Sabra, and have English children, one of whom becomes Guy of Warwick. Alternative names given to the princess in Italian sources still of the 13th century are Cleolinda and Aia.
Source / More about Saint George:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
[SK]
Povinná úloha: Vyfotiť seba alebo osobnú vec a 2 (DVE) fotky priložiť k „found it“ logu, NIE mne do spravy
1. s obrazom Svätého Juraja na budove na súradniciach virtuálnej kešky
2. foto Svätého Juraja na maľbach, erboch, sochach kdekoľvek vo Svätom Jure
(príklady na ref.pointoch)
Nepovinná úloha:
Vyfotiť Svätého Juraja na maľbách, erboch, sochách kdekoľvek na svete a fotku priložiť k logu
Logy bez pridaných fotografií budú vymazané!
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Mandatory task: Take a picture of yourself or a personal thing and attach the 2 photos to the “found it” log.
1. photo with the image of St. George in the building on the coordinates of the virtual cache
2. photo with the St. George in paintings, coats of arms, sculptures anywhere in Svätý Jur
(examples at reference points)
Optional task:
Take a picture of St. George in paintings, coats of arms, sculptures anywhere in the world and attach the photo to the logo.
Logs without photos added will be deleted!
vzorové foto / sample photos
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.
