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- The patron saint of travellers. His feast day
- on 25 July was dropped from the Roman
- Catholic liturgical calendar 1969.
- Traditionally he was a martyr in Syria in the
- 3rd century, and legend describes his
- carrying the child Jesus over the stream;
- despite his great strength, he found the
- burden increasingly heavy, and was told that
- the child was Jesus Christ bearing the sins
- of all the world.
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