Description
This is a chaplet made of Austrian crystal clear glass. It is boxed and includes a prayer sheet. The chaplet is decorated with a lobster clasped to the chaplet. It is perfect for hanging in the car. The chaplet is made to commemorate Saint Christopher, a martyr and patron saint of travelers, bachelors, gardeners, epileptics, and toothache.
Austrian Crystal clear Glass St Christopher Chaplet
Beautiful little chaplet
Boxed
Prayer sheet included
Lobster clasped - perfect for hanging in the car
Saint Christopher
St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
, by
Hieronymus Bosch
(c. 1485)
Martyr
Born
unknown
Canaan
(Western accounts) or
Marmarica
(Eastern accounts)
Died
c. 251
Asia Minor
Veneratedin
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Lutheranism
Oriental Orthodoxy
Anglicanism
Feast
25 July (
Latin Church
) , 9 May (Eastern Churches)
[1]
Attributes
tree, branch, as a
giant
or
ogre
, carrying Jesus, spear, shield, as a dog-headed man
Patronage
bachelors
,
transportation
(drivers, sailors, etc.),
traveling
(especially for long journeys),
storms
,
Brunswick
, Saint Christopher's Island (
Saint Kitts
), Island
Rab
,
Vilnius
,
epilepsy
, gardeners, holy death,
toothache
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