Nice Silver!

[chuckciao]

Found this Sterling Silver St. Christopher Medal in my local park.

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the sweet Silver Medallion! I really like that one! Beale.

 

[Old Longhair]

Great Mr. Christopher medal Chuck!

I've wanted to find one of those for a while. Seems I find all sorts of other sliver Catholic stuff, just not one of those.

Anyway, I referred to him as Mr Christopher for a reason. Some might find this interesting.

"Whatever happened to St. Christopher? Is he still a saint?"
Before the 1969 reform of the Roman calendar, Christopher was listed as a martyr who died under Decius. Nothing else is known about him. There are several legends about him including the one in which he was crossing a river when a child asked to be carried across. When Christopher put the child on his shoulders he found the child was unbelievably heavy. The child, according to the legend, was Christ carrying the weight of the whole world. This was what made Christopher patron saint of travelers. His former feast day is July 25.

Before the formal canonization process began in the fifteenth century, many saints were proclaimed by popular approval. This was a much faster process but unfortunately many of the saints so named were based on legends, pagan mythology, or even other religions -- for example, the story of the Buddha traveled west to Europe and he was "converted" into a Catholic saint! In 1969, the Church took a long look at all the saints on its calendar to see if there was historical evidence that that saint existed and lived a life of holiness. In taking that long look, the Church discovered that there was little proof that many "saints", including some very popular ones, ever lived. Christopher was one of the names that was determined to have a basis mostly in legend. Therefore Christopher (and others) were dropped from the universal calendar.

Some saints were considered so legendary that their cult was completely repressed (including St. Ursula). Christopher's cult was not suppressed but it is confined to local calendars (those for a diocese, country, or so forth).

http://www.catholic.org/saints/faq.php#whatever-happened-to-st-christopher-is-he-still-a-saint

 

[Jack Beam]

Nice find! Congrats!

 

[chuckciao]

Thanks For the history of old St Christopher. Very interesting!

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

Congrat's on the nice find, those are always nice to find.

 

[DigginDoc]

Very nice. Love those medals.
Doc

 

[rseasy1]

Good find been a bit quite here the last couple days glad to see someone is having some secess.

 

[chuckciao]

Thanks rseasy1,
The silver and old coins are harder and harder to come by lately. Randy's post about the guy in St Louis was really encouraging but I cannot seem to eke out even a wheaties from my old park. I just have to keep hunting.
HH
Chuck

 

[EOS]

Sweet find!

Guess it gave a nice signal....

Mike

 

[rjsupersonic]

Great find...keep it up!!