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St. Adjutor
May 18th 2013
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I was commissioned by a client to do a tattoo design for him of St. Adjutor being held up by angels. Since my client is a swimmer, he wanted to have an image of the patron saint of swimmers with him while he was in the water. :) It was a fun commission to do, though school often got in the way, but my client was very patient and I finally got it finished for him.

I had never actually heard of St. Adjutor before this, so here's a little general information about him. He was born in Normandy, France, and was a knight in the First Crusade. His patronage of swimmers comes from a story about him that says he was captured by Muslim soldiers to be sold into slavery. He was on a boat with his captors who tried to force him to apostatize, he refused and leapt over the side of the boat to escape them. Another similar story says that he was held up by angels who prevented him from drowning, despite the heavy chains that dragged him down. He eventually made his way back to France, where he lived out the rest of his days as a hermit, and died on April 30th 1131.
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I think it looks great.  :)  AND NOW I KNOW A NEW SAINT.