Saint Christopher (Subscribe)
Links
Saint Christopher, Martyr, Third Century
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CHRISTOP.htm
From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.
Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=110504
Miniature from a fifteenth-century French book of hours.
Military Martyrs: St. Christopher
http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/Christopher.html
"Origin of Cult" reads like a detective novel, and suggests that St. Christopher and St. Menas are the same person, a soldier martyred in 308. Images, translations of three early passions, the cult of St. Christopher today, bibliography, links.
Christopher
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-christopher/
Profile of the popular saint, takes legend as fact. Illustrated.
Catholic Online Saints
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=36
Terry Matz answers the question, "Whatever happened to St. Christopher?"
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Christopher
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03728a.htm
Article on this martyr, probably of the third century. Although Christopher has been a center of popular legend since the sixth century, all that can be known for certain is that he was a great martyr.