The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . ht the service ofSatan, as a more powerful ruler. Satanappeared to him, leading his armed hosts,and he followed him, till, coming to a crossby the wayside, Satan trembled. Christopher,astonished, inquired the reason, and findingthat Christ was more powerful than Satan hesought Him. He found a hermit who in-structed him in the Christian faith, but herefused to be bound by prayers and the hermit told him that if he could notworship he could serve CHRIST, and sent himto a certain river where there was a fo
The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . ht the service ofSatan, as a more powerful ruler. Satanappeared to him, leading his armed hosts,and he followed him, till, coming to a crossby the wayside, Satan trembled. Christopher,astonished, inquired the reason, and findingthat Christ was more powerful than Satan hesought Him. He found a hermit who in-structed him in the Christian faith, but herefused to be bound by prayers and the hermit told him that if he could notworship he could serve CHRIST, and sent himto a certain river where there was a ford, andtold him to carry over on his shoulders allwho wished to cross. Christopher rooted upa palm-tree for a staff, and day and nightcarried over all who came to the ford. Onenight a child came, and Christopher liftedhim on his shoulders and entered the the waters rose, and the waves and windroared, and the child grew heavier and heavier,so that he could hardly get across. When atlast they reached the bank, the child said hehad carried over Him who made the world,. ST. CHRISTOPHER From the painting by Dierick Bouts at Munich LC THE SAINTS IN ART 49 and that his service was accepted, and that,as a token, if he planted his staff in theground, in the morning it would bear leavesand fruit. Then the Christ Child vanished,and it happened as He had said. And hefell down and worshipped, and went forth toencourage the Christians, calling his nameChristopher, for he had carried Christ. Aftermany sufferings and tortures, he was im-prisoned and beheaded. He is represented as very tall and strong,generally fording a river with a huge staff inhis hand, and carrying the Christ Child on hisshoulders. Fresco by Titian in Palazzo Ducale, Venice. CHRYSOSTOM, St. John. {27th January) The most renowned of the Greek about 350, of noble parents, at Antioch,he began his public life at the bar, but whilestill young he left his widowed mother, andpassed several years in the deser
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