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Christian saint - ''Saint Aegidius'' or more common ''Saint Giles''. |
Christian saint - ''Saint Aegidius'' or more common ''Saint Giles''. |
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An Abbot, said to have been born of illustrious Athenian parentage about the middle of the seventh century. |
An Abbot, said to have been born of illustrious Athenian parentage about the middle of the seventh century. |
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He left Greece c.683 for France where he lived as a hermit in a cave in the diocese of Nimes. |
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Later he became abbot and died around 710-724. |
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Aegidius (unknown - 464) was the magister militum per Gallias in the reign of the emperor Majorian, and in the chaos of Gaul in the middle of the fifth century preserved a Gallo-Roman enclave in the region surrounding Soissons. There is a tradition, dating from Gildas, that the Britons, having been deprived of Roman military protection after 410, wrote to a "Roman commander Agitus", who may be our Aegidius, or possibly Aetius. Aegidius was allied with Childeric I and on his death, which occurred in uncertain circumstances, was succeeded by his son Syagrius.
See also: Aegidius Romanus
Aegidius
Christian saint - Saint Aegidius or more common Saint Giles.
An Abbot, said to have been born of illustrious Athenian parentage about the middle of the seventh century.
He left Greece c.683 for France where he lived as a hermit in a cave in the diocese of Nimes.
Later he became abbot and died around 710-724.