Like Saint Catherine he had been bound to a wheel with sharp spikes, and the wheel had been miraculously broken like that on which the executioners had bound the Virgin of Alexandria.

And like her Saint George had suffered death by means of an axe, thus proving that he was a great saint.[634] In one thing, however, he was wrong; he was of the party of the _Godons_, who for more than three hundred years had kept his feast as that of all the English.

They held him to be their patron saint and invoked him before all other saints.

Thus his name was pronounced as constantly by the vilest Welsh archer as by a knight of the Garter.

In truth no one knew what he thought and whether he did not condemn all these marauders who were fighting for a bad cause; but there was reason to fear that such great honours would affect him.