Lunar Crater St. George - Saint George - Zagreb, Croatia - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

St. George is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley–Apennine region. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove their rover onto what was suspected to be its ejecta blanket in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission, during EVA 1. They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. St. George crater is located on the west slope of Mons Hadley Delta and approximately 4 km southwest of the Apollo 15 landing point. Bridge crater is to the northwest and Elbow crater is to the northeast. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973.
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Saint George (between 256–285 A.D to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and officer in the Guard of Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for failing to recant his Christian faith. As a Christian martyr, he later became one of the most venerated saints in Christianity, and was especially venerated by the Crusaders. In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military saints, he is immortalized in the myth of Saint George and the Dragon. Numerous countries, cities, professions and organisations claim Saint George as their patron.
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Location for this waymark is the statue of St. George and the Dragon in Zagreb. The statue shows St. George after his fight with Dragon as he pays respect to the dead Dragon. The statue is on this location since 1994. Before that it was located in the garden of the Mazuranic house in Jurjevska Street 5. The original location of this statue was in Mallnitz, Austria, in front of Villa Liebermann. In 1937 the statue was given as a gift to Mr. Mazuranic and it was in Zagreb since then. The authors of the statue were Austrian sculptors Kompatscher and Winder.

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