124. The saints of Cappadocia, Basil and the Gregories, were
ignorant of their holy companion. Pope Gelasius (A.D. 494),
the first catholic who acknowledges St. George, places him
among the martyrs "qui Deo magis quam hominibus noti sunt."
He rejects his Acts as the composition of heretics. Some,
perhaps not the oldest, of the spurious Acts are still
extant; and, through a cloud of fiction, we may yet
distinguish the combat which St. George of Cappadocia
sustained, in the presence of Queen Alexandra, against the
magician Athanasius.