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In the first years of the fallout of V2, our family went to a football game at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. I don’t recall the exact year, but, one clever student had a display on a board with St Christopher medals for sale…The sign had the 1 dollar price Xed out, and put ” MR. CHRISTOPHER MEDALS..50 CENTS. ”
THIS WAS BECAUSE ST CHRISTOPHER HAD JUST BEEN TAKEN OFF THE CALENDAR OF CANONIZED SAINTS BY THE VATICAN, BECAUSE, WHOMEVER “THEY” WERE, SAID IT COULD NOT BE PROVED THAT St Christopher ever existed.
I was truly shocked at such a reversal of belief in such a popular Saint as Christopher. Almost everyone who owned a car had a blessed St Christopher medal attached to the inside to ask for protection from automobile accidents……..But, I didn’t question it much. I merely thought that was a big mistake for the Church to make.
Decades and decades later I purchased a volume of the early Ave Maria Magazine at a thrift store in Alabama. In that book there was the story of St Christopher and it stated that St Christopher is honored by the Church as the most celebrated Saint in Heaven, because prayers to Him were the most answered prayersof all the Saints.
Soooo…who is right? V2 or PreV2?… I say there’s a way to know. Put St Christopher on your prayer list and ask Him to answer you…then report to From Rome Info. the results. This may be the only way we will be able to get St Christopher back on the list as one of the greatest miracle workers in Heaven…For Br Bs sake take this challenge seriously…and report back .
As the Catholic Encyclopedia says,
“The existence of a martyr St. Christopher cannot be denied, as was sufficiently shown by the Jesuit Nicholas Serarius, in his treatise on litanies, “Litaneutici” (Cologne, 1609), and by Molanus in his history of sacred pictures, “De picturis et imaginibus sacris” (Louvain, 1570). In a small church dedicated to the martyr St. Christopher, the body of St. Remigius of Reims was buried, 532 (Acta SS., 1 Oct., 161)”
Here we have to distinguish between the fact that a saint lived and was martyred, from the facts which he is alleged in later centuries to have done in life. There can be a disagreement, but that does not mean that the Saint never lived. There are many “Saints” on the new Calendar who never did anything heroic and were the cause of many scandals, such as the recent popes who have been canonized. Canonizations should be based on facts not politics and only real saints should be honored in the ecclesiastical calendar. This is one of the great sacrileges which a future restorer pope needs to address completely.