ADJUTOR

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'Adjutor' is a Saint in Catholicism. He was born near Normandy, France, where he was made a knight in the First Crusade. He is credited to be the Patron Saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims, Patron Saints Index:Saint Adjutor and the Patron Saint of Vernon, France. The stories given for his patronage of boaters vary. Some state that he was captured by Muslims in The Crusade, and escaped persecution by swimming.. Others State that it was in fact Angles who freed him from his captors, and his association with the seas came when he calmed a whirlpool by throwing Holy water, and the chains of his captivity into it, and signing the cross.^[1] In his later life he became a hermit.

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1. Vernon : Saint-Adjutor's Miracles