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.

Profile of the popular saint, takes legend as fact. Illustrated.

Brief profile in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

"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.

Terry Matz answers the question, "Whatever happened to St. Christopher?"

Miniature from a fifteenth-century French book of hours.

From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.