Wednesday in the Octave of Easter
St. George has been an inspiration for countless artists, countless soldiers, and countless patriots. England, Georgia, Moscow, Ethiopia, and many other places in Christendom have made him their patron. You can find countless paintings of St. George on horseback using a spear to fight a dragon and rescuing a fair maiden. St. George was the stuff that legends are made of: he was a soldier-saint, and a martyr of the early Church.
St. Ignatius Loyola was also a soldier-saint, although he was not a martyr. He would certainly have known the legends around Saint George, which were quite popular in his day, and he would have read them while recuperating in Loyola castle following his cannonball wound. Perhaps he even embellished the legends in his own imagination.
The use of imagination is a critically important part of Ignatian spirituality. To make the Spiritual Exercises well, you have to give yourself some kind of poetic license, or artistic freedom of expression, allowing images and conversations to unfold themselves in your mind. In other words, you have to let St. George ride on!
Moreover, you have to make a discernment, and you have to have a spiritual director helping you in this. Is your mind really being moved by the same spirit that once moved the real St. George? If the spirit that is moving you is evil, then reject it, but if the spirit is of God, then let St. George ride on!