# Adjutor

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{{short description|12th-century French Catholic saint}}
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|honorific_prefix=[Saint](/source/Saint)
|name= Adjutor
|birth_date=June 24, 1073
|death_date=April 30, 1131
|feast_day= April 30
|venerated_in= [Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church)
|image= Saint adjutor.jpg
|imagesize= 150px
|caption= Statue of St Adjutor at the collegiate church of [Vernon, Eure](/source/Vernon%2C_Eure)
|birth_place= [Vernon](/source/Vernon%2C_Eure), [France](/source/France)
|death_place=[Tiron](/source/Tiron%2C_France), [France](/source/France)
|titles= [Confessor of the Faith](/source/Confessor_of_the_Faith)
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|attributes =throwing his chains into a whirlpool<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UZGQWr97WmIC&q=Frederick+Charles+Husenbeth#v=snippet&q=Frederick%20Charles%20Husenbeth&f=false Husenbeth, Frederick Charles. ''Emblems of Saints: By which They are Distinguished in Works of Art'', Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860, p. 2]</ref>
|patronage=[swimmers](/source/Human_swimming), [boaters](/source/sailors), [drowning victims](/source/drowning), [Vernon](/source/Vernon%2C_Eure)
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'''Adjutor''' (died April 30, 1131) is venerated as a [saint](/source/saint) by the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church). He is credited to be the [patron saint](/source/patron_saint) of [swimmers](/source/Human_swimming), [boaters](/source/sailor), and [drowning](/source/drowning) victims,<ref name=Catholic_Forum>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta69.htm |title=Patron Saints Index:Saint Adjutor |access-date=June 25, 2006 |work=Patron Saints Index |publisher=Catholic Community Forum |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617074517/http://catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta69.htm |archivedate=17 June 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the patron saint of Vernon, France.  Adjutor was born in [Vernon](/source/Vernon%2C_Eure), [France](/source/France), on July 24, 1073, where he was made a [knight](/source/knight) in the [First Crusade](/source/First_Crusade). The stories given for his patronage of boaters vary, though one common account was that Adjutor was captured by [Muslim](/source/Muslim)s during the First Crusade, who tried to force him to abandon his faith, and when refusing, he escaped persecution by swimming.<ref name=Catholic_Forum /> He swam back to France and entered the Abbey of Trion. There he became a recluse until his death on April 30.

Additional legends state that it was [angel](/source/angel)s who freed Adjutor from his captors, and his association with the seas came when he calmed a [whirlpool](/source/whirlpool) by throwing [Holy water](/source/Holy_water) and the chains of his captivity into it, and [signing the cross](/source/sign_of_the_cross).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://giverny.org/vernon/stadjgb.htm |title=Vernon : Saint-Adjutor's Miracles  |access-date=June 25, 2006 |date=August 25, 2001 |publisher=GiverNet | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060623065317/http://giverny.org/vernon/stadjgb.htm| archivedate= 23 June 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref> In his later life he became a [hermit](/source/hermit).

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