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Is there a Catholic ST George
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Kempie - It was mainly because lots of soldiers at the time wanted George to be their patron that the church gave in an made him a Saint. Originally he was the patron saint of soldiers. The English adopted him as their national patron.
In 1348, George was adopted by Edward III as principal Patron of his new order of chivalry, the Knights of the Garter.
The earliest records of the Order of the Garter were destroyed by fire, but it is believed that either in 1348 or in 1344 Edward proclaimed St George Patron Saint of England. Although the cult of St George was suppressed in England at the Reformation, St George's Chapel, Windsor, completed in stages from 1483 to 1528, has remained the official seat of the Order, where its chapters assemble. The Monarch and the Prince of Wales are always members, together with 24 others and 26 Knights or Ladies Companion.
As early as 496, Pope Gelasius in De libris recipiendis includes George among those saints 'whose names are rightly reverenced among us, but whose actions are known only to God'.
St George is also, of course, venerated in the Church of England, by the Orthodox churches and by the Churches of the Near East and Ethiopia. The supposed tomb of St George can still be seen at Lod, south-east of Tel-Aviv; and a convent in Cairo preserves personal objects which are believed to have belonged to George.