On the way to St Privat-d'Allier I visited a small chapel dedicated to St Roche( when time permits a note about him but of interest was a statue of St Christopher carrying the baby Jesus across a flooded river.For centuries st Chris was honoured as the saint for a safe journey and his image was often attached to the rear vision mirror of a car for safe driving (more recently one sees a rosary or in the case of Muslims. a miniature copy of the Koran or Chinese sym...

On the way to St Privat-d'Allier I visited a small chapel dedicated to St Roche( when time permits a note about him but of interest was a statue of St Christopher carrying the baby Jesus across a flooded river.For centuries st Chris was honoured as the saint for a safe journey and his image was often attached to the rear vision mirror of a car for safe driving (more recently one sees a rosary or in the case of Muslims. a miniature copy of the Koran or Chinese sym...