St. Christopher is Gnoah. Child Jesus is Gnibblet.

St. Christopher is most often carried or worn as a medallion, so I made a giant gnome medallion.

Both gnomes were knitted in white yarn.

The background of the medallion is a wood plaque. The letters are small slider beads. The letters and gnomes are glued on with E6000.

His staff is the tip of a fire bush branch.

Everything is spray painted with Rust-oleum universal metallic in Dark Steel. The wood and letters were spray painted together. The gnomes were spray painted together before glueing to the background. Spray painting the knitting was inspired by Teal’c’s “chainmail” armor in Star Gate SG-1.

About St. Christopher

The story goes that St. Christopher was an extremely tall man with great strength who worshipped Satan in the 3rd century. When he saw Satan cower from a cross by the road, he left to seek out the God of the cross. A hermit helped him on the first steps of becoming a disciple of Christ. The hermit suggested that he could serve Christ by using his great strength to ferry travelers across a dangerous river.

One day a child came to him and asked to be carried across. As they crossed the river, the child became heavier and heavier. According to some historians, when they reached the river banks, he said “Child, thou hast put me in great peril; thou weighest almost as if I had all the world upon me: I might bear no greater burden.” The responded, renaming him Christopher, “Christopher, thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, but thou hast borne Him that created and made all the world, upon thy shoulders.”

The child instructed him to place his staff in the ground. It sprouted and grew into a tree on the riverbank. Christopher spread the gospel of Christ throughout the surrounding area and was eventually martyred under Emperor Decius.