Why was ✝️St. Christopher with a 🐺dog's head❓❓❓

Icons of Christopher "with a dog's head" together with some other "controversial" iconographic subjects were officially forbidden by the Synod's order of 1722 as "contrary to nature, history and the truth itself". But it would be naive to assume that this figure appeared "by mistake" ....
This is the most mysterious of all the saints, and icons with his image are still in disgrace in the Church. They depict St. Christopher with a dog's head. This may seem blasphemous to some. But the Greeks, creating these icons, and did not think to desecrate the holy feelings. Just such people were described by St. Andrew the Apostle after his missionary journey through the lands where the Pakistani-Iranian border is now located.
Many references to the life of this unusual saint with the head of a dog can be found in church literature. According to them, St. Christopher was so fierce that the Roman Emperor Decius Trajan, who ruled in the 250s, seeing him for the first time, fell from his throne out of fear. George Alexandrou, a Greek writer, while collecting facts about the life of St. Andrew the Apostle, about whom he wrote the book "He who raised the Cross in the Ice", found many references to the cinocephals, a tribe to which St. Christopher could have belonged.
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