"Y' cladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt."[18] [18] Spenser: "Faerie Queene." was reputed to have performed one of his most doughty deeds, and had "_redeemed the King's daughter out of the fiery jaws of a dreadful dragon_.[19] [19] Ludovicus Patricius: "Book of Travels." The memory of St. George has always been greatly revered in the East, particularly by the Christian Greek Church, by which he was acclaimed as the "Victorious One," the "Champion Knight of Christendom," and early accepted as the protector saint of soldiers and sailors. One of the first churches erected by Constantine the Great, about A.D. 313, and many other Eastern churches, were dedicated to him. It is to be noted, however, that St. George has never been canonized by the Roman Church, nor his name placed in her calendar of sacred saints. His name, like those of St. Christopher, St. Sebastian and St. Nicholas, was only included in a list issued in A.D. 494, by Pope Gelasius, as being among those "_whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose actions are known only to God_.[20] [20] Jameson: "Sacred and Legendary Art." The form of his cross is that known as the Greek Cross, the four arms being at right angles to each other, and in this form is displayed in the upper corner of the national Greek ensign, in this case as a white cross on a blue ground. (Pl II., fig. 3.) This Greek religious connection has also caused the adoption of the cross of St. George in the insignia of other nations. The Czar of Russia is not only the "Autocrat of the People of the Empire of all the Russias," but he is also the "Supreme Head of the Orthodox Faith," which in Russia is represented by the Greek Church. His Imperial Standard is a yellow flag upon which is displayed a black two-headed eagle bearing upon its breast a red shield on which is emblazoned in white the figure of St. George slaying a dragon. This same colouring, white on red, is followed in the decoration of the Order of St. George, which is the second order of knighthood in Russia, and in the white cross of St. George, as shown in the official flags of the Russian ambassadors. On the royal arms of Austria the black two-headed eagle bears on its breast a shield with a red ground having on it a white St. George's cross. The insignia of eight nations bear the Greek cross of the St. George shape, but in four different colours on grounds of three different colours: Greece a white cross on a blue ground. Russia a " " " red " Austria a " " " " " Denmark a " " " " " Switzerland a " " " " " Norway a blue " " " " Sweden a yellow " " blue " England a red " " white " England is, however, the only nation which has adopted the _Red cross of St. George_ as its special national ensign.