Saint George in devotions, traditions and prayers was specially devoted to the saint and declared him the patron saint of Portugal. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Portuguese explorers carried the devotion across the oceans to India and South America. After the thirteenth century, a large portion of the art, iconography and legendary traditions associated with Saint George and many festivals that celebrate him involve the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. The association of Saint George with the dragon was not attested to until the twelfth century version of "Miracula Sancti Georgii" (Codex Romanus Angelicus 46, pt. 12, written in Greek). Jacobus De Voragine, the
Saint Potenciana imaginative details that were later added by her devotees, it appears that the real Saint Potenciana was an ordinary woman who worked as a weaver, living a hermit's life in poverty close to All Saints Church, and who was looked on as saintly both in life and in death and earned the respect and veneration of the local people, who appealed to her for comfort and aid in their troubles and ailments. Saint Pudentiana is also called Saint Potentiana, in Spanish Potenciana. Saint Potenciana is the patron saint of Villanueva de la Reina. She was also patron saint of Andújar