The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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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 - ancient
Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - One Hundred and One Botanists.
References in Documents:
Bargrave's Travel Diary (Canterbury Cathedral CCA U11/8)

On tewsday and wthith sossillry andI walked to Nostra Dame S.14 the cheife Cathedrall in France, wchhich is but Smale (two or 3 such might almost stand in Pauls at London) but it is adornd with hangings and pictures, and sculptures where of the most stately and magnificent is the story of Stt. Christopher at the entrance of the Church. There is a doble row of pillars 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 La Charitè where I sayw sick of al sorts, wounded, lame &t many hundreths; the beds standing in rowes very extraordinarily neately and clenlylyclenly kept by Nunns wchhich attend them.

Next to Nostra Dame the churchochurch of Stt. Eustachius is the fairest, and then the Jesuites church newly built.

Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

The like out of St. Christophers Island.