# Saint Christopher

> A martyr no one can place or date — yet for centuries travelers pinned metal tokens of him to their dashboards. The legends disagree on nearly everything except this: he carried something heavier than it looked.

*Saint in the Catholic and Orthodox church*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/saint-christopher

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 300
- **Died:** 251
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

The earliest hard trace is a shrine near Chalcedon in 452, but the stories that grew around Christopher scatter his life across Egypt, the Middle East, or Barbaria and his death under Decius, Diocletian, or Maximinus Daza. The Eastern tradition gave him a dog's head and a ferocious nature before conversion; the West preferred a giant, ugly and unrefined, but human. Both agree the name came only after he turned Christian — Christóphoros, Christ-bearer. By the 13th century the Golden Legend locked in the image still worn on key chains: the convert who ferried travelers across a river, asked one night to carry a child, and found the boy growing impossibly heavy as the water rose, because the child was Christ. He became patron saint of travelers not for where he went but for what he bore.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 59.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 15.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #208

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Religious Figure, #Religion, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193507)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Christopher)
- [متياس كريستوفر](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1)
- [Müqəddəs Xristofor](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCq%C9%99dd%C9%99s_Xristofor)
- [Сьвяты Хрыстафор](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%A5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80)
- [Святы Хрыстафор](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%A5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80)
- [Христофор](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80)
- [Sant Kristof](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Kristof)
- [Cristòfor de Lícia](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B2for_de_L%C3%ADcia)
- [Svatý Kryštof](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%BD_Kry%C5%A1tof)
- [Cristoffer](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristoffer)
- [Sankt Kristoffer](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Kristoffer)
- [Christophorus](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophorus)
- [Άγιος Χριστόφορος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Kristoforo (martiro)](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristoforo_(martiro))
- [Cristóbal de Licia](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_de_Licia)
- [Kristoforus](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristoforus)
- [Kristobal Liziakoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristobal_Liziakoa)
- [کریستوفر قدیس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1_%D9%82%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B3)
- [Pyhä Kristoforos](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyh%C3%A4_Kristoforos)
- [Christophe de Lycie](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_de_Lycie)
- [Kristoffel (hillige)](https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristoffel_(hillige))
- [Cristovo de Licia](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristovo_de_Licia)
- [Saint Christopher](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a996c57d-67ac-4b8e-86b6-5dbdc52e7214)
- [Sint Christopher](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Christopher)
- [خرسطوفورس اللوقي](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A)

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