The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
St Christopher, Saint (ca. 370 BCE - 285 BCE)
Roman Catholic & Orthodox saint and martyr. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03728a.htm Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher#Patronage_of_places Authority - ancientLinked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - One Hundred and One Botanists.
References in Documents:
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the cheife Cathedrall in France, wch
Smale (two or 3 such might almost stand in
ings and pictures, and sculptures where of
the most stately and magnificent is the
story of t
of the Church. There is a doble row of pil
lars at each sid of the nauis or body of the
church, but the windowes are of white
glass, yett wroth in a hansome fashion.
There is hard by the Church an hospitall
cal'd yw sick of al
sorts, wounded, lame &t many hundreths; the
beds standing in rowes very extraordinarily
neately and ch
attend them.
Next to t
Eustachius
church newly built.
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