GILES OF ASSISI, Blessed. - Third companion of St. Francis of Assisi, with whom he associated around 1208. He made great pilgrimages, earning his bread by work, to Rome, to St. James of Compostela and to the Holy Land. After that he withdrew to the hermitages of Umbria, especially at Monteripido outside Perugia, where he died on 23 April 1262 (1261). A great contemplative and ecstatic. His cult was confirmed by Pius VI in 1777. Feast on 23 April.

His companions collected his Detti or spiritual teachings, sometimes full of wit and homely wisdom, Dicta B. Aegidii Assizionis (Bibliotheca Franciscana ascetica medii aevi, 3, Quaracchi 1905), Italian version, with good studies, edited by N. Vian: Beato E. di Assisi, I Detti (Brescia 1923).

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BIBL.: La Vita attribuita a frate Leone, in Analecta Franciscana, 3 (Quaracchi 1897), pp. 74-115, and a shorter redaction in L. Lemmens, Scripto fr. Leoni, ibid. 1901, pp. 37-63; W. Seton, Blessed Giles of Assisi, Manchester 1918. Liviole Oliver

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Giles of Assisi, Blessed

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