He is to be seen in pictures again and again in Venetian churches, but these three scenes by Carpaccio are the finest.

The Saint was a Cappadocian gentleman and the dragon ranged and terrorized the Libyan desert.

Every day the people of the city which the dragon most affected bribed him away with two sheep.

When the sheep gave out a man was substituted.

Then children and young people, to be selected by lot, and the lot in time fell on the king's daughter.