St Christopher

I have poured over religious holidays, festivals, dates, bank holidays and have made it a rather personal journey with 'My London' secret address book and I have littered it with the quotes that inspire me and St Christopher's to keep me safe.

Anya Hindmarch: Electronic or Paper? Anya Hindmarch 2011

I have poured over religious holidays, festivals, dates, bank holidays and have made it a rather personal journey with 'My London' secret address book and I have littered it with the quotes that inspire me and St Christopher's to keep me safe.

Anya Hindmarch: Electronic or Paper? Anya Hindmarch 2011

In 1969, adding insult to injury, the Vatican formally abolished the feast day of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers.

Colin Thubron on the literature of place 2011

In a little stone chapel at one corner is a shrine of flowers in posies and a makeshift wooden cross to St Christopher, his name inscribed on the cracked, cobwebbed plaster wall.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In a little stone chapel at one corner is a shrine of flowers in posies and a makeshift wooden cross to St Christopher, his name inscribed on the cracked, cobwebbed plaster wall.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

So does the fact that she was prepared to learn a little Polish, enough to write a message accompanying each of the carefully wrapped 300 presents–they included a St Christopher medal and a packet of cigarettes for each man–the gifts she brought to the Christmas dinner for the pilots that was held, in 1941, at the Alexandra Palace.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

The relics themselves have been examined and consist mainly of bone but with hair (labelled as coming from St John the Evangelist) and semi-precious stones (associated with St Christopher).

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

There is a splendid St Christopher, with fishes about his ankles, and a mermaid looking at herself in a mirror.

Church of St Oswald, Widford, Oxfordshire 2008

Well, we know it's St Christopher because his giant staff is visible, but not much else.

Church of St Oswald, Widford, Oxfordshire 2008

In any case it is bound to be St Christopher because it was his image that was painted opposite the door so that churchgoers could look upon it and say a prayer for their safety that day.

Church of St Oswald, Widford, Oxfordshire 2008