[122] The fears of the Pagans were
just, and their precautions ineffectual. The meritorious death of the
archbishop obliterated the memory of his life. The rival of Athanasius
was dear and sacred to the Arians, and the seeming conversion of those
sectaries introduced his worship into the bosom of the Catholic church.
[123] The odious stranger, disguising every circumstance of time and
place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero;
[124] and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed
[125] into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of
chivalry, and of the garter. [126]

[Footnote 119: The life and death of George of Cappadocia are described
by Ammianus, (xxii. 11,) Gregory of Nazianzen, (Orat. xxi. p. 382, 385,
389, 390,) and Epiphanius, (Haeres. lxxvi.) The invectives of the two
saints might not deserve much credit, unless they were confirmed by the
testimony of the cool and impartial infidel.]

[Footnote 120: After the massacre of George, the emperor Julian
repeatedly sent orders to preserve the library for his own use, and to
torture the slaves who might be suspected of secreting any books. He
praises the merit of the collection, from whence he had borrowed
and transcribed several manuscripts while he pursued his studies in
Cappadocia. He could wish, indeed, that the works of the Galiaeans
might perish but he requires an exact account even of those theological
volumes lest other treatises more valuable should be confounded in their
less Julian. Epist. ix. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 120a: Julian himself says, that they tore him to pieces like
dogs, Epist. x.--M.]

[Footnote 121: Philostorgius, with cautious malice, insinuates their
guilt, l. vii. c. ii. Godefroy p. 267.]

[Footnote 122: Cineres projecit in mare, id metuens ut clamabat, ne,
collectis supremis, aedes illis exstruerentur ut reliquis, qui deviare
a religione compulsi, pertulere, cruciabiles poenas, adusque gloriosam
mortem intemerata fide progressi, et nunc Martyres appellantur. Ammian.
xxii. 11. Epiphanius proves to the Arians, that George was not a
martyr.]

[Footnote 123: Some Donatists (Optatus Milev. p. 60, 303, edit.
Dupin; and Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. vi. p. 713, in 4to.) and
Priscillianists (Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. viii. p. 517, in 4to.)
have in like manner usurped the honors of the Catholic saints and
martyrs.]

[Footnote 124: The saints of Cappadocia, Basil, and the Gregories, were
ig