Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Saints & hagiography Saints

Giles, Saint

EGIDIO, SANTO

By Agostino Amore

Feast day: 1 September

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Also known as: St. Giles; French: Saint Gilles; Latin: Aegidius

GILES, Saint. - Abbot, d. ca. 725. The information concerning him is uncertain and obscure. His cult was already known in the 9th century, especially in the monastery of St-Gilles, which preserved his tomb.

A highly legendary Life was written between the 9th and 10th centuries. According to this, E. was born in Athens around 640 to a noble family; to escape the praises and honors that his thaumaturgic power procured for him, he took refuge in Provence, where he led a hermit's life. Discovered by chance, he founded a monastery that gave rise to the town of St-Gilles. Urban IV inserted his Office into the Roman Breviary. St. E. is numbered among the Helper saints. Feast on September 1. - See 1st. X.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Septembris, I, ed. Paris 1868, pp. 284-304; F. Britain, St-Gilles, Cambridge 1928; F. Boulard, St-Gilles, Rambouillet 1935; Martyr, Romanum, p. 373.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 137.

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Amore, Agostino. “Egidio, santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 137. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/egidio-santo.

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Amore, Agostino. “Egidio, santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 137. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/egidio-santo.

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  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Egidio, santo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {137},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/egidio-santo}
}

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