Patron Saints Index: Saint Christopher: Images

Images of Saint CHRISTOPHER
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holy cards

paintings

8kb jpg painting 'Saint Christopher' by Conrad Witz (1400-45), dating c.1435, at the Öffentliche Kunstammlung Kunstmuseum, Basel; image from Web Gallery of Art

29kb jpg Saint Christopher woodcut from the John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK, executed in southern Germany or German Switzerland in 1423; this hand-coloured block-print is the earliest dated example of European printing, and was preserved as an endpaper in a manuscript dated 1417 from Bohemia, the Laus Virginis

17jb jpg Saint Christopher with the Christ Child (78 3/4 x 61 inches) by Simon Pereyns, dating 1588, at Catedral Metropolitano, Mexico City

12kb jpg Saint Christopher (1.27 x 1.00m) by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), dating 1637, at Museo del Prado, Madrid; image from Web Gallery of Art

statuary

16kb jpg wooden sculpture of Saint Christopher, approximately life size, by Tobias Heintze, dated 1624, from Church of Saint Nicholas, Tallinn; note the unusual absence of the Christ-child from Christopher's neck where the globe alone appears; thanks to Prof. B. Sallay and D. Sallay

icons

20kb jpg icon by modern iconographer Robert Lentz

medals

26kb jpg medal lapel pin

41kb jpg medal front and back

27kb jpg medallion

10kb jpg mold-made cameo of dark lime colored glass (height 28.4mm), with opaque red swirl, dating 12th-13th century, from Venice; depicts Saint Christopher holding the child Jesus on his shoulder; both nimbate and in long tunics and cloaks; saint is beardless; legend on either side reads S.CRIS - TOFORI, i.e., of Saint Christopher

10kb jpg German Saint Christopher Medal, silver, dating late 18th-early 19th century, seemingly overstruck on an older coin; obverse depicts a bearded Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child through troubled waters; reverse depicts a flowering tree, Saint Christopher's staff come to life, within a wreathed border

other

10kb jpg image from urn

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