ABSTRACT
G. Bardy observed that St Christopher was ‘un des plus populaires, mais aussi un des moins connus parmi les saints martyrs de l’antiquité’. According to Gordini, the earliest surviving Passions, which are in Latin (BHL, 1764-66), only date from just before the eighth century.1 The first surviving texts in Greek date from even later. However, there is one early reference to the cult of St Christopher, an inscription from a church at Chalcedon, constructed by Bishop Eulalius in 450 and dedicated on 22 September 452,2 that is several centuries earlier than the first Greek Passions.3
