Saint George is the patron saint of Ethiopia. Bete Giyorgis, the most important of the eleven rock-hewn monolithic churches in the town of Lalibela is dedicated to him. Saint George served as an important symbol of nationalism during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. In 1937 Emperor Haile Selassie, while in exile in England, took part in a memorial service for those killed in the Abyssinian war at St George's, Bloomsbury. Saint George is still a popular figure in contemporary culture with the country's oldest beer, Saint George's beer, and the Addis Ababa football team Saint George S.C. is named for him.