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Although we have no certain information, it is possible he suffered martyrdom in Licia around the year 250. Many legends have grown up round this figure which describe him as being in the pay of a powerful king and also of the devil. He is however attributed exceptional strenght which permitted him to carry travellers across the river on his shoulders. It appears that one day the Child Jesus asked him for his services to cross the river. Christopher jeered at such a light load until the weight of the Child was such that it did not permit him to continue his crossing. He thus recognized the Child‘s divinity and placed himself at his service. A late medieval belief was that the vision of Christ of Child being carried on St.Christopher‘s shoulders represented the vision of the Eucharist and that it assured one, at least for that day, not to die a sudden death. So as to enable the believers to have this vision, the iconographies of St.Christopher on the outside of the churches were particularly large. Already in the year 452 a church was consacrated to him in Calcedonia.