Saint Christopher
Saint in the Catholic and Orthodox church
- Fame59.9
- Momentum1.6
- Religious Figures rank#208
- Fame59.9
- Momentum1.6
- Religious Figures rank#208
- Wikipedia79.5K
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.
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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…
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