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Feast of St. George.  A ubiquitous image in the Balkans, the slayer of the dragon.  (Although, in the Golden Legend, apparently the beast's life is preserved long enough to lead it into the town for a ritual killing, as opposed to killing in struggle.)  

A message to their children, perhaps: Dragons be here.

Associated with this date since the 13th c., the feast proclaimed at a synod at Oxford.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm