Legend has it that a Roman general named Placidus was hunting down a stag when he saw Jesus (or a cross) between his prey's antlers. He was converted and changed his name to Eustace, meaning good fortune or fruitful. Ha! His life was a series of Job-like calamities, ending with being roasted to death inside a bronze statue of an ox in 118. Later Eustace became known as a patron saint of hunters.
Rome's Sant'Eustachio church exhibits similar antlers.
