It's feminism gone amuck: Instead of St George protecting the maiden from the evil dragon, it's St. Margaret doing a medieval version of Ripley vs Alien....
From CantuburyTalesBlog:
Martha, at the prayer of the people, came into the wood, and found him eating a man. And she cast on him holy water, and showed to him the cross, which anon was overcome, and standing still as a sheep, she bound him with her own girdle, and then was slain with spears and glaives of the people.
Wikipedia entry HERE.
Yup. another pagan papist belief in the impossible...of course, as Wikipedia notes:
Her historical existence is dubious; she was declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius I in 494...
but like today, ordinary Catholics didn't quibble about such things, figuring there was a real saint behind the legend who would help them.
Photos from Wikipedia...
statue from Toulouse is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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