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An early depiction of St. George (d. 303) (right) and St. Theodore (d. 306) slaying a dragon at the Yılanlı Kilise ("Snake Church") in Cappadocia. This is one of the earliest depictions of St. George slaying a dragon, dating from the 9th-11th century, and shows the gradual transferring of the dragon myth from Theodore (with whom it had previously been associated) to George.
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