The Seven Champions of Christendom is an epithet referring to St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser, and St. David.
They are the patron saints of, respectively, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal,[1] and Wales.
[2] Legend often portrays God sending James to the Battle of Clavijo to fight against the Moors, while George is usually thought of as being a knightly dragon-slayer.
While the stories of each of these saints were popular in Europe during the Middle Ages, it was Johnson who was the first to group them together.
Richard Johnson was the inventor of the ideas that the other three were martyrs, and that any of the Champions besides George and James were knights-errant.