Saint Eligius ( also Eloy or Loye ) () ( c. 588 – 1 December 660 ) is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors.

There also survive biographical Lives of saints of the period, for instance Saint Eligius and Leodegar, written soon after their subjects ' deaths.

Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero ; Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine.

The satirical rhymes place Dagobert in various ridiculous positions from which Eligius ' good advice manages to extract him.

Other than placing Dagobert and Eligius in their respective roles, it has no historical accuracy.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

After the death of Saint Eligius in 661, the Life of Eligius — written soon after Chlothar's death — records that a plague reduced the population of France's cities.

The Life of Saint Eligius records that as of the middle 670s Ebroin had only one child, a son named Bobo ; Bobo was then convalescing from an illness contracted during his adolescence.

This is echoed in an interview with the Catholic chaplain at the prison, Father Eligius Weir, who had been a personal confidant of Richard Loeb.

This was a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius ( died 659 or 660 ), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, "( Do not ) make vetulas, figures of the Old Woman, little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

" The quote is from the vita of Eligius written by his companion, Ouen.

In the 7th century, Saint Eligius ( died 659 / 60 ) warned the recently converted inhabitants of Flanders against the age-old pagan solstice celebrations.

Construction, however, stalled almost totally until 1480, due to lack of money and ideas: the most notable works of this period were the tombs of Marco Carelli and Pope Martin V ( 1424 ) and the windows of the apse ( 1470s ), of which those extant portray St. John the Evangelist, by Cristoforo de ' Mottis, and Saint Eligius and San John of Damascus, both by Niccolò da Varallo.

) are accurately painted but the goldsmith is actually a depiction of St. Eligius and the objects heavily symbolic.

Disapproving references to such uses can be found in the writings of Saints Jerome and Eligius, and Alcuin, but they are accepted by John Chrysostom, Augustine, who " expresses qualified approval " of using manuscripts as a cure for headaches, and Gregory the Great, who sent one to Queen Theodelinda for her son.

The paintings include a 14th-century Pietà, a Doom, St Helena and St Eligius, and St George slaying the Dragon.

Signature of St. Eloy ( Eligius ), Financier and Minister to Dagobert I .; from the Charter of Foundation of the Abbey of Solignac ( Jean Mabillon | Mabillon, De re diplomatica ).

Eligius was chief counsellor to Dagobert I, Merovingian king of France.

Appointed the bishop of Noyon-Tournai three years after the king's death in 642, Eligius worked for twenty years to convert the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity.

Eligius was born at the " villa " of Chaptelat, six miles north of Limoges, in Aquitaine ( now France ), into an educated and influential Gallo-Roman family.

Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen ( German: Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen, better known as Friedrich Halm ) ( April 2, 1806 – May 22, 1871 ) was an Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer of the Austrian Biedermeier period and is more generally known under his pseudonym, ' Friedrich Halm '.

Eligius died on 1 December 659 or 660 and was buried at Noyon.

Dagobert was immortalized in the song Le bon roi Dagobert ( The Good King Dagobert ), a nursery rhyme featuring exchanges between the king and his chief adviser, Saint Eligius ( Eloi in French ).

:' Indeed King Dagobert, swift, handsome and famous with no rival among any of the earlier kings of the Franks, loved him so much that he would often take himself out of the crowds of princes, optimates, dukes or bishops around him and seek private counsel from Eligius ".

Signature of St. Eloy ( Eligius ), Financier and Minister to Dagobert I .; from the Charter of Foundation of the Abbey of Solignac ( Mabillon, " Da Re Diplomatica ").

* Life, icons, artworks relating to St. Eligius, bishop of Tournai-Noyon ( in French )

He was part of a group of young courtiers like Saint Wandrille and Saint Didier of Cahors and was a close friend of Saint Eligius, whose vita he wrote ; Audoin was consecrated bishop of Rouen in 640.

On the death of Acarius, Bishop of Noyon-Tournai, March 14 of Clovis's third year ( 642 ), Eligius was made his successor, with the unanimous approbation of clergy and people.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

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Brygos ( potter signed ), Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

Symbols on Gerzean pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

" As Middle Egyptian evolved into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and finally Coptic ( c. 600 BC ), dj-b-t became tobe " brick.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

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* Bodhidharma ( c. 440 – 528 CE ), founder of the Zen school of Buddhism

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Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

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