Wow, interesting, I had no idea. I don't think people are going to give up on him anytime soon, given the amount of cars I used to see that had St. Christopher medals in them (even if they weren't visible they were usually in the glove box).

It's also interesting because until very recently France had this rather restrictive rule that kids could only be given saints' names. One of the first court cases that challenged this was a couple who wanted to name their daughter "Megane", I think. Of course, there was also a car called Renault Megane at the time which confused the issue (I actually don't know the end of the story). Anyway, I wonder what the saint purge did to French birth certificates. (Did they burst into flames?) I know plenty of French Christophers born after 1969, so obviously the name was left on the list.

Plus there is now no official patron saint of travelers. This was really not a time for the church to get technical, I think. Oh well, at least we still have St Jude.