=
XXIV PREFACE,
where Alexandra the Queen was, went out and caused a herald to proclaim that George would offer sacrifice to the gods on the morrow. When George had come into the palace he began to pray, and Alexandra hearing the prayer asked him to explain it to her, aud to tell her about Christ, And George told her of the creation of man and of his fall, of his enemy the devil, and of the coming of the Son of God into the world to save man from the fires of Amenti When Alexandra learned that Apollo and Herakles and the other gods of the empire were not gods, but only idols, she believed on Christ, aud entreated George to pray to Him on her behalf. On the following day Dadianus sent to bring George to offer sacrifice to Apollo, whereupon George commanded the little boy, to whom he had given the power of hearing, seeing, and walking, to go into the temple of Apollo, and to bid him to come to him. When the devil which sojourned in the idol heard George’s command he leaped down from his pedestal and ‘came to him; and he at once told George that he was the rebellious spirit who refused to bow down before Adam, and that on account of this act of rebellion he was expelled from heaven. And when the devil had confessed all his evil deeds, George struck the earth with his foot, and it opened, and swallowed him up. ‘hen George went into the temple, and threw down the images of Herakles and the other gods, and trampled them in the dust. When the priests saw what George had done they bound him with cords, and took him to Dadianus, who charged him with having lied and broken his promise to worship Apollo. Dadiam $
