Bridge statue of St Kilian
On the bridge over the Main at Würzburg in Germany stands the statue of St Kilian. He is the city's most important saint, and the figure rises in the open air. You reach him on foot, and the water below makes the spot a favourite for photographs.
He comes from Ireland and brings Christianity to Franconia in the 7th century. Totnan and Kolonat, his companions, make the same journey. To this day he is the patron of the city and the diocese of Würzburg. Around his feast day on 8 July, the city celebrates the Kiliani Festival.
A legend ties the saint to the bridge itself. The missionaries are said to have thrown the idols of a pagan sanctuary into the Main. Centuries later, when builders lay the foundations of the first bridge, his biography says they surface again in the riverbed. So he keeps watch over the river that gave the idols back to the light.
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