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Réginald of Saint-Gilles, Blessed

RÉGINALDO DI SAINT-GILLES, BEATO

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Also known as: Latin: Reginaldus de Sancto Aegidio

RÉGINALD OF SAINT-GILLES, Blessed. - B. at St-Gilles in 1183, d. 1 February 1220. By 1206 he was already a professor of canon law in Paris.

After a stay of 5 years there, R. became dean of the Institute of St-Aignan in Orléans. At the beginning of 1218, finding himself in Rome, he became a disciple of St. Dominic and assisted him in the founding of the convent of Bologna and of Paris, where he died in the odour of sanctity. His cult was ratified in 1875, with the title of blessed. Feast on 12 February.

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BIBL.: L. Baunard, Le b. Reginald de St-Aignan de l'Ordre des Frères Prêcheurs, Orléans, 1863; H. Chr. Scacben, Der heilige Dominthus, s. l. 1927, pp. 253-56; A. Walz, Compendium historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum, 2nd ed., Rome 1947, pp. 443-49.

Carlo Callovini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), col. 652.

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Callovini, Carlo. “Réginaldo di Saint-Gilles, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 652. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/reginaldo-di-saint-gilles-beato.

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Callovini, Carlo. “Réginaldo di Saint-Gilles, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 652. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/reginaldo-di-saint-gilles-beato.

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  title     = {Réginaldo di Saint-Gilles, beato},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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