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
James of Portugal Monte in Florence, the only tomb in that church. Some of the best artists in Renaissance Florence were commissioned to design and decorate the chapel of the "Cardinale del Portogallo" in San Miniato. Portuguese art historian António Bélard da Fonseca, in his multi-volume "O Mistério dos Painéis" (1957-1967), controversially claimed that it is James of Portugal, and not St. Vincent, who is depicted as the radiant saintly figure in the central panels of the famous Saint Vincent Panels of Nuno Gonçalves. James of Portugal James of Portugal (17 September 1433 – 27 August 1459), also known as James of Coimbra,