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See also: CHRISTOPHER, See also:SAINT (See also:Christophorus, Christoferus) , a saint honoured in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic (25th of See also:July) and Orthodox Eastern (9th of May) Churches, the See also:patron of ferrymen. Nothing that is See also:authentic is known about him. He appears to have been originally a See also:pagan and to have been See also:born in See also:Syria. He was baptized by Babylas, See also:bishop of See also:Antioch; preached with much success in See also:Lycia; and was martyred about A.D. 250 during the persecution under the See also:emperor See also:Decius.' See also:Round this small See also:nucleus of possibility, however, a vast See also:mass of legendary See also:matter gradually collected. All accounts agree that he was of See also:great stature and singularly handsome, and that this helped him not a little in his evangelistic See also:work. But according to a See also:story reproduced in the New Uniat See also:Anthology of Arcudius, and mentioned in See also:Basil's See also:Monologue, Christopher was originally a hideous See also:man-eating See also:ogre, with a See also:dog's See also:face, and only received his human semblance, with his See also:Christian name, at See also:baptism. Most of his astounding miracles are of the See also:ordinary type. He thrusts his See also:staff into the ground; whereupon it sprouts into a date See also:palm, and thousands are converted. Courtesans sent to seduce him are turned by his See also:mere aspect into Christians and martyrs. The Roman See also:governor is confounded by his insensi-
Or Dagnus—perhaps to be identified with Maximinus Daza, See also:joint emperor (with See also:Galerius) in the See also:East 305-311, and See also:sole emperor 311-313.bility to the most refined and ingenious tortures. He is roasted over a slow See also:fire and basted with boiling oil, but tells his tormentors that by the See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace of Jesus See also:Christ he feels nothing. When at last, in despair, they cut off his See also: head, he had converted 48,000 See also:people.
The more conspicuous of these legends are included in the Mozarabic See also:Breviary and See also:Missal, and are given in the See also:thirty-third See also:sermon of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Damien, but the best-known story is that which is given in the See also:Golden See also:Legend of Jacopus de Voragine. According to this, Christopher—or rather Reprobus, as he was then called—was a See also:giant of vast stature who was in See also:search of a man stronger than himself, whom he might serve, He See also:left the service of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Canaan because the king feared the See also:devil, and that of the devil because the devil feared the See also:Cross. He was converted by a See also:hermit; but as he had neither the See also:gift of See also:fasting nor that of See also:prayer, he decided to devote himself to a work of charity, and set himself to carry wayfarers over a bridgeless See also:river. One See also:day a little See also:child asked to be taken across, and Christopher took him on his See also:shoulder. When See also:half way over the stream he staggered under what seemed to him a crushing See also:weight, but he reached the other See also:side and then upbraided the child for placing him in peril. "Had I See also:borne the whole See also:world on my back," he said, " it could not have weighed heavier than See also:thou!" " Marvel not!" the child replied, " for thou See also:host borne upon thy back the world and him who created it!" It was this story that gave Christopher his immense popularity throughout Western Christendom.
See See also:Rolland. Acta Sanct. vi. 146; Guenebault, Dict. iconographique See also:des .attribute des figures et des lcgendes des See also:saints (See also:Par., 185o) ; See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith and See also:Wace, Dict. of Christ. Biog. (See also:London, 1877, &c., 4 vols.) ; A. Sinemus, See also: Die Legende vom h. Christophorus (See also:Hanover, 1868) ; and other literature cited in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyk. iv. 6o.
End of Article: CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)
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