On the Feast of St. Christopher, A Letter From My Heart

Today is the feast of the saint I was named for, a ferryman who carried a child across a flooding river and nearly drowned doing it. Pope Francis warned that when we stop moving, things go wrong.

An adaptation of the St. Christopher drawing in the Westminster Psalter, added to the English manuscript around 1250, showing the saint bearing the Christ child through the water. In the legend, the child grew heavier with every step until the ferryman nearly drowned under the weight he had agreed to carry.

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