AS THE PATRON saint of travellers, the protection of St Christopher is often invoked by Catholics going on long journeys.But there can’t be many statues of the saint – no longer commemorated by the Church – that have made it to the Moon and back. Later this month, a one-inch-high St Christopher statue that has travelled to the lunar surface will go on auction at the Massachusetts-based RR Auction. It was carried by Charlie Duke on the Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, and spent three days on the Moon. Included in the lot is a prayer devised by Fr Paddy Roche, a priest then based in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, and sent to the Nasa astronauts before they departed for the Moon on 16 April 1972. The prayer was hand painted by the students and staff of Holy Spirit Catholic Prim