Saint George's Day

SAINT GEORGE'S MY FAVOURITE STORY

My favourite story of when I was little was Saint George's. The story is about a knight, a town, and a beautiful Princess.

Long time ago, there was a town that was very scared. They were frightening because there was a dragon eating sheep or people everyday . The king of the town decided to do a random will touch someone to be eaten by the dragon. The first person was his daughter. She went to where it was the dragon. But, a knight appeared with his white horse and rescued her. All the people of the town were very grateful after rescue the beautiful Princess.

Besides being a great story also is a very enjoyable tradition that is done in Catalonia and some countries more. Other countries like so much. In my opinion it is a great tradition and an amazing legend. For this reason I like the story very much.

Eloi Lara, 1st D

SAINT GEORGE

Saint George is a popular festival celebrated on 23^rd of April in honour of the knight, Saint George. This festival is very popular in Catalonia.

We usually have presents, women give a book to men and men give a rose to women. Because the legend tells, when the dragon died, from the blood grew a rose, and Saint George gave it to the princess.

Since this day it was also created the Catalonia’s flag which according to the legend was yellow, but when Saint George killed the dragon he left the red mark of the blood in the flag.

23^rd of April is also a very important day because is the day who Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died. We called this day the Day of the Book because these two famous men were writers.

Cervantes wrote the famous romance called “Don Quijote de la Mancha” and he is considered one of the best Spanish literature’s writers. Shakespeare is the most important English writer and one of the most famous in the universal literature.

Suemy Ly Lam, 1st D

The Legend of St. George

In Catalonia one of the most important legends is St. George. It talks about a princess and a knight. The story tell this:

In the past, 300 years ago, there was an angry dragon, he was very angry because he ate all the food and the villagers didn't have more food. One day the king decided to give it one person a week because the dragon thought to kill every one because he was angry and the village didn't have more food to give it. Before this the king sent a group of knights to kill the dragon but the knights never killed it. One day was the turn of the princess. The king was very sad and all of the people too.

The next morning the princess went to the cave of the dragon, but she saw a knight, a different knight, of the kingdom.

The man walked to the cove and he said: “ I come to this country to kill the dragon and save you.”

The dragon went out the cove and tried to kill them. St. George killed the dragon. The dragon expelled blood and the blood transformed into a group of beautiful roses. St. George gave one rose to the princess. The princess loved him but he saved more people in the world.

And this is the legend of St. George.

Paloma Barea,1st B

SAINT GEORGE

Hello my name is George. Do you know my story? Oh! Okay,okay! I'm the hero en the “Saint George” story.

I lived in Hamstescklome, in Portugal.

Every day, in Hamstescklome, people com concerned. I didn't give many importance, but every time there were more people concerned, and I went to ask these people. They said me “In the Kingdom of Blanes there is a Dragon, and it steals us the sheep. It eats people, and now, this goes to eat the princes.” And I went to rescue the princess and her people very fast. I got at Blanes in one week on my horse Rodolf. I got when the princess was in front of the dragon, and I began to fight against the dragon with my sword. I won the battle. And incredibly from the blood began to grow roses, and I gave a rose to the princess.

She fell in love with me and I fell in love with her.

This is my incredible story.

You don't say my existence!

Joel Gutiérrez, 1st C