Patronages of Saint George United States Armor Association awards the Saint George Award to tankers and cavalry troopers in a knighting ceremony. He is also the patron saint of skin disease sufferers and syphilitic people. Patronages of Saint George As a highly celebrated saint in both the Western and Eastern Christian churches, Saint George is connected with a large number of patronages throughout the world, and his iconography can be found on the flags and coats of arms of a number of cities and countries. Saint George is a patron saint of Georgia, and it is claimed by Georgian author Enriko Gabisashvili that Saint
Amador of Portugal Amador of Portugal Saint Amador of Portugal (), whose feast day is celebrated on 27 March, was a hermit in Portugal. Several churches in the diocese of Guarda and elsewhere in Portugal are dedicated to him. Amador was born in Monsanto on the edge of the Bishopric of Guarda. He retired to the hermitage of São Pedro Vir-on-Corces, where he lived for many years. One day he found an abandoned newborn, whom he raised and educated, and who also became a hermit and priest in the same place. Over time, the cave where they lived was converted into a chapel.