Adjutor

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title: "Adjutor" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["year-of-birth-unknown", "1131-deaths", "french-hermits", "12th-century-christian-saints", "medieval-french-saints", "1073-births"] description: "12th-century French Catholic saint" topic_path: "people/1130s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjutor" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 12th-century French Catholic saint ::

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Field	Value
name	Saint Adjutor
birth_date	June 24, 1073
death_date	April 30, 1131
feast_day	April 30
venerated_in	Roman Catholic Church
image	Saint adjutor.jpg
imagesize	150px
caption	Statue of St Adjutor at the collegiate church of Vernon, Eure
birth_place	Vernon, France
death_place	Tiron, France
attributes	throwing his chains into a whirlpool
patronage	swimmers, boaters, drowning victims, Vernon
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|name= Saint Adjutor |birth_date=June 24, 1073 |death_date=April 30, 1131 |feast_day= April 30 |venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church |image= Saint adjutor.jpg |imagesize= 150px |caption= Statue of St Adjutor at the collegiate church of Vernon, Eure |birth_place= Vernon, France |death_place=Tiron, France |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes =throwing his chains into a whirlpool |patronage=swimmers, boaters, drowning victims, Vernon |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= Adjutor (died April 30, 1131) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He is credited to be the patron saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims, and the patron saint of Vernon, France. Adjutor was born in Vernon, France, on July 24, 1073, where he was made a knight in the First Crusade. The stories given for his patronage of boaters vary, though one common account was that Adjutor was captured by Muslims during the First Crusade, who tried to force him to abandon his faith, and when refusing, he escaped persecution by swimming. 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 angels who freed Adjutor 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. In his later life he became a hermit.

References

References

1. [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]
2. "Patron Saints Index:Saint Adjutor". Catholic Community Forum.
3. (August 25, 2001). "Vernon : Saint-Adjutor's Miracles". GiverNet.

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