ST. CHRISTOPHER
POPULAR IN BRITAIN TRAVELLORS’ PATRON SAINT j (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, November 20. j St. Christopher has become the most ; popular saint in Great Britain, comments the Sunday Referee. | Shops all over the country have | completely sold out of the emblem of the patron saint of travellers, j The rush to buy St. Christopher I pla-ques and badges began on October 19. the day after Commodore Robert | B. Irving, the commander of the Queen i Mary, docked the giant 81,000 tons I liner in New York without the help of ! tugs. I Commodore Irving said that when) he was faced with the task of docking ; the liner unaided, “I looked at my St. Christopher medal and asked if I could ma,ke it. He told me to go to it—and I did ” Directly the news of his feat became known, department stores all over England were flooded with enquiries for medals of the saint. The shops are trying to get in new stocks for Christmas. Fashionable women who spend a great deal of time travelling are having special brooches j made of the saint in delicately worked gold and jewels.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 5
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192ST. CHRISTOPHER Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 5
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