Sonja

I actually went into the church taking shots of all the different Saint George Sculptures rather intentionally to humor some catalan Ipernity comrade having his own group about Saint George, so a "find" it is not, just some manmade stuff I never bothered to have own shots of until I promised someone, next time I get there I take close ups of it all. Generally I am to fond of dragons and other cryptozoological critters to support those catholic saints famous for having killed interesting animals.

@Appaloosa -- previous shot in the stream shows all in a slightly different angle and with a bit of the surrounds. He is one of the larger Saint George images in the church, upright stretched out, the knight might be indeed be the size of a boy past K-4 school age.

Looks like that horse in your picture is not an old artwork, but a modern horse manequin to model the real ancient armour on.... that is very different and of course requires to create a model the exact size of the animal who has worn it to battle long ago. One can actually see a seam where parts got joined... it's just for presenting the authentic old stuff how it looked in use, but it is quite nicely done and realistic otherwise, down to the white of the eye...

This here was carved along with it's rider and is really from 1680 itself. No, it is not really lifesize, it is sized so that the whole sculpture with the end of the lance overtowering the rest migh be a bit more than 2 metres high, but the knight is only like a young kid in size. Even so, this is a huge sculpture for a tiny pilgrimage church.

There are causes why that legendary knight that killed a dragon was pushed as a catholic saint. There was a time "dragon slayer"meant something like purification and christianisation of heathen spiritual places already in use by the native people when the missionaries came. You native amerians got certain advantages that your heritage is still closer by, and the missions could not erradicate all memories and replace them with some hero killing the spirits and making room for monotheism. I am actually not a really huge fan of saints supposed to have killed legendary animals, it is usually a sign something significant to our heritage got lost and burried there although the space still is sacred. I am rather partial to dragons and other curious cryptozoological animals than entities that are supposed to fight them. :o)

When I took lots of pics of the Saint George sculpures last time I hiked on the Auerberg I had a certain Ipernity friend in mind who would have enjoyed them. Early November this seemed a good idea. Now that I finally got to the stuff I have no idea how even to reach him and tell him I did upload it somewhere. :(