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|SaintName=Saint Christopher of La Guardia | |SaintName=Saint Christopher of La Guardia | ||
|SaintStage=Folk Saint | |SaintStage=Folk Saint | ||
| | |FeastDay=September 25 | ||
|SaintBirthPlace=Toledo, Castile, Spain | |SaintBirthPlace=Toledo, Castile, Spain | ||
|SaintBirthCoordinates=39.862704, -4.031050 | |SaintBirthCoordinates=39.862704, -4.031050 | ||
|DeathPlace=La Guardia, Toledo, Castile, Spain | |DeathPlace=La Guardia, Toledo, Castile, Spain | ||
|SaintDeathCoordinates=40.033333, -4.266667 | |SaintDeathCoordinates=40.033333, -4.266667 | ||
|SaintCauseOfDeath=martyrdom | |SaintCauseOfDeath=martyrdom | ||
| | |AssociatedCountries=Spain | ||
| | |AssociatedDioceses=[[Archdiocese of Toledo]] | ||
|Canonized=No | |Canonized=No | ||
|SaintMiracle1=Restoration of mother's sight at moment of death | |SaintMiracle1=Restoration of mother's sight at moment of death | ||
|SaintMiracle2=Miraculous healings attributed post-martyrdom | |SaintMiracle2=Miraculous healings attributed post-martyrdom | ||
|SaintMiracle3=Disappearance of body and heart | |SaintMiracle3=Disappearance of body and heart | ||
|Profession=child | |Profession=child | ||
|ReligiousAffiliation=none | |ReligiousAffiliation=none | ||
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|Attributes=child crowned with thorns; crucified | |Attributes=child crowned with thorns; crucified | ||
|PrimaryShrine=Ermita del Santo Niño de La Guardia, La Guardia, Toledo, Spain | |PrimaryShrine=Ermita del Santo Niño de La Guardia, La Guardia, Toledo, Spain | ||
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'''Saint Christopher of La Guardia''', also known as the '''Holy Child of La Guardia''' (Spanish: ''Santo Niño de La Guardia''), is a folk saint in Spanish Roman Catholicism, venerated as a child martyr based on a 15th-century legend tied to the Spanish Inquisition.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Child_of_La_Guardia |title=Holy Child of La Guardia |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> According to hagiographic tradition, Christopher (Cristóbal), a boy of three or four years from Toledo, was allegedly kidnapped in 1491 by conversos and Jews, subjected to a mock trial imitating Christ's Passion, scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified, and had his heart removed for a sorcery ritual involving a consecrated Host.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_La_Guardia |title=Santo Niño de La Guardia |publisher=Wikipedia (es) |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> This narrative, developed in 16th-century accounts, cannot be confirmed historically; no body was found, no disappearance reported, and the story is widely regarded by scholars as a blood libel accusation used to justify anti-Semitic persecutions, including the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain. | '''Saint Christopher of La Guardia''', also known as the '''Holy Child of La Guardia''' (Spanish: ''Santo Niño de La Guardia''), is a folk saint in Spanish Roman Catholicism, venerated as a child martyr based on a 15th-century legend tied to the Spanish Inquisition.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Child_of_La_Guardia |title=Holy Child of La Guardia |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> According to hagiographic tradition, Christopher (Cristóbal), a boy of three or four years from Toledo, was allegedly kidnapped in 1491 by conversos and Jews, subjected to a mock trial imitating Christ's Passion, scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified, and had his heart removed for a sorcery ritual involving a consecrated Host.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Ni%C3%B1o_de_La_Guardia |title=Santo Niño de La Guardia |publisher=Wikipedia (es) |access-date=2025-11-16}}</ref> This narrative, developed in 16th-century accounts, cannot be confirmed historically; no body was found, no disappearance reported, and the story is widely regarded by scholars as a blood libel accusation used to justify anti-Semitic persecutions, including the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain. | ||