{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "st-christopher-medal",
 "type": "amulet",
 "names": {
  "name": "St Christopher medal",
  "native": "Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος",
  "script": "Greek",
  "lang": "el",
  "said": "in French, médaille de Saint Christophe; in Spanish, medalla de San Cristóbal",
  "aliases": [
   "Saint Christopher medal",
   "travellers' medal",
   "San Cristóbal medal",
   "Christophorus medal"
  ]
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "Greek Χριστόφορος, from Χριστός 'Christ' and φέρειν 'to bear' — Christ-bearer",
  "note": "Both hagiographic traditions say Christopher was not the name he was born with. He takes it at conversion; in the Greek Martyrdom he is Reprebos before it, in the Golden Legend Reprobus.",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher"
 },
 "region": [
  "western-europe",
  "iberia",
  "rome-italy",
  "greece-aegean",
  "balkans",
  "north-america",
  "diaspora"
 ],
 "countries": [
  "FR",
  "ES",
  "IT",
  "HR",
  "GR",
  "US"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "early-modern",
  "status": "living",
  "portable": "worn",
  "restricted": "open",
  "hemisphere": [
   "N",
   "W",
   "E"
  ]
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A stamped metal disc, 15 to 30 mm across, showing a bearded giant wading a river with a staff in one hand and a child on his shoulder. Aluminium, tin, brass, silver and gold all get struck. It hangs at the neck on a chain, clips to a bracelet, rides in a pocket, or goes in a car. Most carry a sentence around the rim; the French and the Spanish sentences are not the same sentence.",
  "story": "Read the medal and you have the story. In the thirteenth-century Golden Legend, Christopher — a giant of twelve cubits, by that account — goes looking for the greatest master in the world, ends up serving Christ, and is set to carrying travellers across a dangerous river. A child asks to be carried. The water rises, the child grows heavier with every step, and on the far bank he says: \"You had on your shoulders not only the whole world but Him who made it.\" From that, various Christian denominations made him patron of travellers, and the Roman Catholic Church counts him among the Fourteen Holy Helpers. The patronage list ran wide before cars existed: mariners, ferrymen, archers, bachelors, bookbinders, fruit dealers, fullers, gardeners, surfers, toothache, floods, storms, lightning, pestilence, a holy death.\n\nWhat the medals promise depends on the language they are struck in. The French rim reads \"Regarde St Christophe et va-t-en rassuré\" — look at Saint Christopher and go on reassured. The Spanish medals and holy cards go further: \"Si en San Cristóbal confías, de accidente no morirás\" — if you trust in Saint Christopher, you will not die in an accident. This atlas prints both sentences as what the object says of itself, names the languages they are struck in, and stops.\n\nThen there is the thing everybody thinks they know. In 1969 the Roman Catholic Church revised the General Roman Calendar; Christopher's celebration was left, in the revision's own phrasing, to particular calendars, because his feast had entered the Roman calendar relatively late and because the written Acts of him are, in the same document's words, \"merely legendary\" while the ancient veneration of the martyr is not in doubt. The English-language telling of that decision, from 1969 onward, was that the Church had abolished him — decanonised, demoted, declared never to have existed, patron saint of nothing. Catholic Answers answers it flatly: \"St. Christopher was never 'de-canonized,' nor did the Church declare him a myth.\" Patrick Mott, writing in Orange County Catholic in 2015, calls it \"not so much a demotion as a reassignment\" and adds that \"He has never ceased to be recognized as a saint by the Church.\" The Roman Martyrology still remembers him on 25 July; the Eastern Orthodox Church keeps him on 9 May and calls him Great Martyr. *Inference —* the medal outsold the correction by a wide margin, and the correction has now been in print for more than fifty years.\n\nThe official line runs through the object too, not around it. A medal blessed by a priest is a sacramental, which the Catholic Church defines as a sacred sign that works by the Church's prayer rather than by itself, and which \"does not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do\". An unblessed medal is a piece of jewellery. The 2001 Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy sets the boundary the other way round, holding that popular piety \"may never incorporate rites permeated by magic, superstition, animism, vendettas or sexual connotations\". *Inference —* the Church draws that line in writing precisely because the line gets crossed, and the Spanish rim sentence is a good example of a claim the object makes that the doctrine does not.",
  "how": "Struck by religious-goods manufacturers, sold at church shops, shrine stalls, jewellers, service stations and online. A priest may bless it, at which point the Church calls it a sacramental; nothing requires that, and nothing stops an unblessed one being worn. It is given more often than bought for oneself — to a traveller, a new driver, a child leaving home — and it is commonly passed on.",
  "today": "Still struck, still sold, still worn across Catholic Europe and the Americas in 2026, and still stocked beside the Miraculous Medal and the Brown Scapular in the same shops. Most buyers meet the 1969 story in one of its garbled forms first. No dated retail price was read for this record."
 },
 "dating": {
  "period": "the cult from late antiquity; the struck medal from the early modern period",
  "from_year": 452,
  "to_year": null,
  "living": true,
  "label": "the cult from 452; the struck medal from the sixteenth century; carried now",
  "method": "inscribed",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
  "note": "452 is the consecration of a martyrium to a blessed Christopher near Chalcedon, dated by a stone inscription found in the ruins (construction May 450 to 22 September 452). It is the earliest evidence of the cult, not of the medal. Cast pilgrims' signs run from about the twelfth century and struck devotional medals replace them in the sixteenth or seventeenth; Christopher's own commemoration in the Roman rite dates to around 1550."
 },
 "object": {
  "form": "medal",
  "materials": [
   "silver",
   "brass",
   "gold",
   "copper"
  ],
  "worn": [
   "neck",
   "chest",
   "wrist",
   "pocket",
   "wallet",
   "vehicle"
  ],
  "made_by": "religious-goods manufacturers and medal strikers; a priest may bless one, and nothing requires it",
  "inscription": "Regarde St Christophe et va-t-en rassuré / Si en San Cristóbal confías, de accidente no morirás",
  "script": "Latin",
  "colour": [
   "silver",
   "gold"
  ],
  "single_use": false,
  "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
  "note": "Both rim sentences are quoted from the cited source. Aluminium and tin are the cheap retail metals and have no key in this project's materials list. The 15–30 mm range in text.what is the ordinary retail range and is not a published measurement, so no length_mm is entered."
 },
 "against": [
  {
   "harm": "traffic",
   "who": "the Spanish medals and holy cards themselves",
   "quote": "Si en San Cristóbal confías, de accidente no morirás",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "if you trust in Saint Christopher, you will not die in an accident"
  },
  {
   "harm": "travel",
   "who": "the French medals themselves",
   "quote": "Regarde St Christophe et va-t-en rassuré",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "look at Saint Christopher and go on reassured"
  },
  {
   "harm": "drowning",
   "who": "the Roman Catholic patronage list, which names mariners, boatmen, ferrymen, floods and storms",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  {
   "harm": "fever",
   "who": "the Roman Catholic Church, which counts Christopher among the Fourteen Holy Helpers and names lightning and pestilence in his patronage",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "the cited source calls the Fourteen Holy Helpers a group of saints held to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases"
  }
 ],
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "car-saint",
   "as": "the same medal once the traveller got an engine — clipped to a visor instead of worn at the throat",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "miraculous-medal",
   "as": "the other stamped medal on the same shop counter, and the one whose origin story has a date, a witness and a goldsmith",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "catholic-sacramentals",
   "as": "the category the Church puts a blessed medal in, and the doctrine the Spanish rim sentence outruns",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "brown-scapular",
   "as": "the cloth version of the same argument — a devotional object with a promise attached that its own order spends its time qualifying",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "agnus-dei",
   "as": "the older Roman sacramental worn at the neck, in wax rather than struck metal",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "ladanka",
   "as": "what an Orthodox neck carries instead, and the Orthodox version of the same line between devotion and charm",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "to": "holy-rider-pendant",
   "as": "the late-antique ancestor of a saint on a disc worn against danger",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "omamori",
   "as": "the Japanese object sold for the same road, with kōtsū-anzen written on it instead of a Latin rim",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "to": "blessing-at-a-shrine",
   "as": "the act that turns this medal from jewellery into what the Church calls a sacramental — optional, and often skipped",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "to": "cross",
   "as": "the sign stamped on the reverse of most of them",
   "rel": "motif"
  },
  {
   "to": "amulet-or-talisman",
   "as": "the long read this record is the hardest case for: the Church calls it a sacramental, the rim calls it insurance",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "miraculous-medal",
   "tell": "if the figure is a woman standing on a globe inside an oval of words, with twelve stars and a letter M on the back, it is the Miraculous Medal; Christopher is a man in a river with a child on his shoulder"
  },
  {
   "id": "car-saint",
   "tell": "same saint, different position — this record is the medal on a body, that one is the medal or statue fixed in a vehicle"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Saint Christopher — Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher"
  },
  {
   "label": "St. Christopher: The Real Story Behind the Patron of Travelers — Catholic Answers",
   "url": "https://www.catholic.com/tract/st-christopher-the-real-story-behind-the-patron-of-travelers"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-saint-christopher",
  "s:wp-devotional-medal",
  "s:wp-sacramental",
  "s:web-catholic-answers-st-christopher",
  "s:web-occatholic-saint-who-aint",
  "s:wp-general-roman-calendar-1969",
  "s:web-vatican-directory-popular-piety"
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 "provenance": {
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text.story": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-catholic-answers-st-christopher",
    "note": "the calendar paragraph is carried by Catholic Answers, Orange County Catholic and the General Roman Calendar of 1969 article; the two stretches marked *Inference —* are this project's own and are labelled where they appear"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "continued sale reasoned from the sources; no market figure and no dated price read"
   },
   "object": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
    "note": "inscriptions and positions cited; the size range is the ordinary retail range, not a published measurement"
   },
   "dating": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
    "note": "452 dates the cult by an inscription; the medal itself is later and the note says by how much"
   }
  }
 },
 "images": [],
 "x_commons_files": [
  "File:Saint Christopher medal.jpg",
  "File:Hieronymus Bosch - Saint Christopher - WGA2559.jpg"
 ],
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-17",
 "blurb": "A stamped metal disc, 15 to 30 mm across, showing a bearded giant wading a river with a staff in one hand and a child on his shoulder. Aluminium, tin, brass, silver and gold all get struck.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "western-europe",
   "name": "Western Europe",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "W",
    "E"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "iberia",
   "name": "Iberia",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "W"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "rome-italy",
   "name": "Rome and Italy",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "E"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "greece-aegean",
   "name": "Greece and the Aegean",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "E"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "balkans",
   "name": "The Balkans",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "E"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "north-america",
   "name": "North America",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "W"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "diaspora",
   "name": "Diaspora",
   "hemi": [
    "N",
    "S",
    "E",
    "W"
   ],
   "note": "a practice carried out of its home region and kept"
  }
 ],
 "hemispheres": [
  "E",
  "N",
  "S",
  "W"
 ],
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  {
   "to": "car-saint",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Car saint",
   "as": "the same medal once the traveller got an engine — clipped to a visor instead of worn at the throat",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "miraculous-medal",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Miraculous Medal",
   "as": "the other stamped medal on the same shop counter, and the one whose origin story has a date, a witness and a goldsmith",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "catholic-sacramentals",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Catholic sacramentals",
   "as": "the category the Church puts a blessed medal in, and the doctrine the Spanish rim sentence outruns",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "brown-scapular",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Brown Scapular",
   "as": "the cloth version of the same argument — a devotional object with a promise attached that its own order spends its time qualifying",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "agnus-dei",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Agnus Dei",
   "as": "the older Roman sacramental worn at the neck, in wax rather than struck metal",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "ladanka",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Ladanka",
   "as": "what an Orthodox neck carries instead, and the Orthodox version of the same line between devotion and charm",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "to": "holy-rider-pendant",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Holy rider pendant",
   "as": "the late-antique ancestor of a saint on a disc worn against danger",
   "rel": "origin"
  },
  {
   "to": "omamori",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Omamori",
   "as": "the Japanese object sold for the same road, with kōtsū-anzen written on it instead of a Latin rim",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "to": "blessing-at-a-shrine",
   "type": "practice",
   "name": "Blessing at a shrine",
   "as": "the act that turns this medal from jewellery into what the Church calls a sacramental — optional, and often skipped",
   "rel": "practice"
  },
  {
   "to": "cross",
   "type": "motif",
   "name": "The cross",
   "as": "the sign stamped on the reverse of most of them",
   "rel": "motif"
  },
  {
   "to": "amulet-or-talisman",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Amulet or talisman?",
   "as": "the long read this record is the hardest case for: the Church calls it a sacramental, the rim calls it insurance",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "kind": "encyclopedia",
   "title": "Saint Christopher",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-devotional-medal",
   "kind": "encyclopedia",
   "title": "Devotional medal",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotional_medal",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-sacramental",
   "kind": "encyclopedia",
   "title": "Sacramental",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramental",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-catholic-answers-st-christopher",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "St. Christopher: The Real Story Behind the Patron of Travelers",
   "publisher": "Catholic Answers",
   "url": "https://www.catholic.com/tract/st-christopher-the-real-story-behind-the-patron-of-travelers",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17",
   "note": "No author or publication date is printed on the tract."
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-occatholic-saint-who-aint",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Christopher: The Saint Who Ain't?",
   "author": "Patrick Mott",
   "publisher": "Orange County Catholic (Diocese of Orange)",
   "url": "https://www.occatholic.com/christopher-the-saint-who-aint/",
   "date": "2015-09-30",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17"
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  {
   "id": "s:wp-general-roman-calendar-1969",
   "kind": "encyclopedia",
   "title": "General Roman Calendar of 1969",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Roman_Calendar_of_1969",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
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  {
   "id": "s:web-vatican-directory-popular-piety",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines",
   "author": "Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments",
   "publisher": "Libreria Editrice Vaticana (vatican.va)",
   "url": "https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html",
   "date": "2001-12",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17",
   "note": "Paragraph 12 quotes the rule that popular piety 'may never incorporate rites permeated by magic, superstition, animism, vendettas or sexual connotations'. Paragraph 205 lists the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Marian medals among approved practices."
  }
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher"
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-catholic-answers-st-christopher",
   "note": "the calendar paragraph is carried by Catholic Answers, Orange County Catholic and the General Roman Calendar of 1969 article; the two stretches marked *Inference —* are this project's own and are labelled where they appear"
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   "tier": "cited",
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   "tier": "cited",
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   "note": "452 dates the cult by an inscription; the medal itself is later and the note says by how much"
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "note": "inscriptions and positions cited; the size range is the ordinary retail range, not a published measurement"
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   "key": "traffic",
   "label": "A road accident",
   "gloss": "the modern descendant of the travel charm",
   "who": "the Spanish medals and holy cards themselves",
   "quote": "Si en San Cristóbal confías, de accidente no morirás",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "if you trust in Saint Christopher, you will not die in an accident"
  },
  {
   "key": "travel",
   "label": "Danger on a journey",
   "who": "the French medals themselves",
   "quote": "Regarde St Christophe et va-t-en rassuré",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "look at Saint Christopher and go on reassured"
  },
  {
   "key": "drowning",
   "label": "Drowning and storm at sea",
   "who": "the Roman Catholic patronage list, which names mariners, boatmen, ferrymen, floods and storms",
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   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "key": "fever",
   "label": "Fever and plague",
   "who": "the Roman Catholic Church, which counts Christopher among the Fourteen Holy Helpers and names lightning and pestilence in his patronage",
   "quote": "",
   "source": "s:wp-saint-christopher",
   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "the cited source calls the Fourteen Holy Helpers a group of saints held to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases"
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   "key": "silver",
   "label": "Silver",
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  {
   "key": "brass",
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   "kind": "metal"
  },
  {
   "key": "gold",
   "label": "Gold",
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  },
  {
   "key": "copper",
   "label": "Copper and bronze",
   "kind": "metal"
  }
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   "key": "neck",
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   "note": "the world's default position"
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  {
   "key": "chest",
   "label": "On the chest, under the shirt",
   "group": "body"
  },
  {
   "key": "wrist",
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  },
  {
   "key": "pocket",
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   "group": "carried"
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  {
   "key": "wallet",
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  },
  {
   "key": "vehicle",
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   "group": "placed"
  }
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  "label": "Medal"
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 "span": "452 CE to now",
 "country_names": [
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   "iso": "FR",
   "name": "France"
  },
  {
   "iso": "ES",
   "name": "Spain"
  },
  {
   "iso": "IT",
   "name": "Italy"
  },
  {
   "iso": "HR",
   "name": "Croatia"
  },
  {
   "iso": "GR",
   "name": "Greece"
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  {
   "iso": "US",
   "name": "United States of America"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "from": "agnus-dei",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Agnus Dei",
   "as": "the other neck-worn Roman sacramental, in metal and in quantity",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "anting-anting",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Anting-anting",
   "as": "the Catholic medal this most resembles on a tray, and does not behave like: an anting-anting takes its charge from an orasyon read on Good Friday",
   "rel": "contrast"
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  {
   "from": "brown-scapular",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Brown Scapular",
   "as": "the metal version of the same argument — a promise struck into an object that its own church spends its time qualifying",
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  },
  {
   "from": "car-saint",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Car saint",
   "as": "the same saint worn at the neck rather than fixed to a car — this record is what happens when the medal gets a dashboard",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "caul",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Caul",
   "as": "the other charm a European traveller carried against drowning, and the one you could buy rather than be born with",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "from": "challenge-coin",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Challenge coin",
   "as": "the struck disc carried in the same pocket by the same soldier, for a different reason entirely",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "coptic-cross-tattoo",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Coptic cross tattoo",
   "as": "the Christian charm you can take off, which is the whole difference",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "hei-matau",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Hei matau",
   "as": "the other object in this atlas most often worn against danger on a crossing",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "from": "holy-rider-pendant",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Holy rider pendant",
   "as": "what this becomes in Latin Christendom — a saint on a small metal disc, worn against a named danger",
   "rel": "descendant"
  },
  {
   "from": "ladanka",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Ladanka",
   "as": "what a Catholic neck carries where this hangs beside an Orthodox cross",
   "rel": "parallel"
  },
  {
   "from": "milagro",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Milagro",
   "as": "the other metal token bought at the same counter, worn instead of pinned",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "miraculous-medal",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Miraculous Medal",
   "as": "the other stamped medal on the same counter — that one promises a safe road, this one promises graces",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "mjolnir-pendant",
   "type": "amulet",
   "name": "Mjölnir pendant",
   "as": "what a Christian traveller in the same waters wore instead, once the north had changed religion",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "catholic-sacramentals",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Catholic sacramentals",
   "as": "the sacramental that travels, with its promise stamped on it in French and Spanish",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "from": "cross",
   "type": "motif",
   "name": "The cross",
   "as": "the mass-produced Catholic metal the cross now shares a neck with",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ]
}