Saint Christopher - Silver image on wood, locally gilded - Mount Athos

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Christianity Art presents Saint Christopher - Silver image on wood, locally gilded - Mount Athos. Category: Wall reliefs. Materials: Silver, Gold, Wood. Image painted on canvas on wood, with silver coating and local gold plated. The image is accompanied by a free support base. Saint Kitts St. Christopher lived in the years where Bishop in Antioch was St. Jerome Vabylas and Emperor Decius. It is often referred to and depicted as a doghead or doghead, due to its origin from an area of Asia - people there were often referred to as dogheads or dogheads, due to lack of knowledge. St. Christopher, born Reprovos, was captured during a war and transferred to Antioch where he was baptized a Christian by the priest of Babela. He is said to have passed the travelers from one bank of a stream to another, including Christ. A reason for his beheading.... was the conversion of Roman soldiers sent to arrest him and two women who had them seduce him, to Christianity.