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Christopher, St
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Christopher, St

Patron saint of travellers. His feast day, 25 July, was dropped from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar in 1969.

Traditionally he was a martyr in Syria in the 3rd century, and legend describes his carrying the child Jesus over the stream; despite his great strength, he found the burden increasingly heavy, and was told that the child was Jesus Christ bearing the sins of all the world.



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