When was st christopher desainted

Yes, St. Christopher is still a saint. Tradition holds that he died at Lycia on the southern coast of Asia Minor about the year Various legends surround his life. The most popular is that he was a rather ugly, giant man, born to a heathen king who was married to a Christian, who had prayed to the Blessed Mother for a child.

Again according to legend, one day one of his passengers to cross the river was a small child. As they proceeded, the child kept growing heavier, and Christopher feared that they would drown. Into the sacred trash can! Many of the saints revered during the era of the Knights Templar 12th and 13th centuries were removed from the liturgical calendar in the sweeping reforms of the Catholic Church in the s.

Up to 93 saints were no longer to have their own saints days. Like many of the great medieval saints, he had been martyred under one of the later Roman emperors. In this case, different accounts of his life indicate he died either under the Emperor Decius or the Emperor Maximinus Daia.

The alternative versions of his life smack of later concoctions and additions but basically he went on a quest to find Jesus Christ during which he was tasked with helping people to cross a river — by carrying them. One of those he carried was a child who was extremely heavy and the river was treacherous that day.

Christopher got to the other side and remarked on how heavy the child had been. He then revealed that he was Christ and upon his shoulders was the world. Then the child disappeared. Unsurprisingly, Christopher became the patron saint of travellers. Saint Ursula was another saint taken off the calendar. She was betrothed to be married to Conan Meriadoc, the pagan governor of Armorica — modern day Brittany. Then the accounts from various sources get massively mixed up.

Some say she was blown off course, went to see the Pope in Rome, helped fight off the Huns who were besieging the Roman city of Cologne and may have eventually ended up marrying a now Christian Conan. A less happy version has her boat blown off course, ending up in Germany where she and her virgins were killed by the Huns. Amusingly, the number of virgins over the centuries increased from eleven to eleven thousand! And even as high as 70,!!

Still, even if the story sounds totally far fetched, it inspired the founding of the Ursuline order of nuns and Christopher Columbus named a group of islands in the Caribbean after this saint and her followers — the Virgin Islands.

Another saint to get chopped was Saint Philomena. Again martyred in the late Roman Empire. According to some church related sources , she was never a saint and the Vatican was merely clarifying the situation in the s. Those who defend de-listing this martyr saint, point out there is no literary or archaeological evidence to prove her existence as a person let alone a saint.

Her veneration took off pretty quickly and spread all over Italy and France. The problem was that this cult had never received official papal approval. So she came off the books! Saint Nicholas, the model for Santa Claus, also got the boot. Yo ho ho? What It Takes to Become a Saint. Legend had it he carried a child who grew increasingly heavy across a river -- the child was supposed to be carrying the weight of God. Saint Ursula suffered a similar fate when the Catholic Church decided she was only a myth.

She is thought to have been the leader of a group of virgins who were murdered at Cologne. Saint George is remembered as a brave martyr -- often depicted as a hero slaying a dragon in paintings.