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

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

Eligius introduced this rule, either entirely or in part, into the monastery of Solignac near Limoges, which he founded in 632 at a villa he had purchased, and also at the convent he founded at Paris, where three hundred virgins were under the guidance of the Abbess Aurea.

St. Eligius is also the patron saint of cattle and horses.

Elsewhere ", is a slang term used in the medical industry to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients not wanted by more prestigious institutions, and ( to the further detriment of St. Eligius ' reputation ) also used in medical academia to refer to non-teaching hospitals in general.

One of the more common interpretations of this scene is that as Tommy shakes the snow globe in the apartment, he also makes it snow at the " fictional " St. Eligius.

After the finding of the body of St. Quentin, Bishop Eligius erected in his honor a church to which was joined a monastery under the Irish rule.

Eligius founded several monasteries, and with the king's consent, sent his servants through towns and villages to take down the bodies of criminals who had been executed and give them decent burial.

Examples include: a silver tiara from the twelfth century ; Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque jewelry ; liturgical objects from the Medieval period, which include the reliquary of St. Eligius in the shape of mitre ; Gothic and Renaissance glazed tiles and paving stones ; precious embroidered Rosenberg antependium dating from the second half of the 14th century, and fine Bohemian porcelain and glass from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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.

In what appears to be a 7th century indication of the survival of cult practices of this general sort, Saint Eligius, in his Sermo warns the sick among his recently converted flock in Flanders against putting " devilish charms at springs or trees or crossroads ", and, according to Saint Ouen would urge them " No Christian should make or render any devotion to the deities of the trivium, where three roads meet ...".

* Saint Eligius ( approximate date )

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.

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 ).

" 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 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.

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

15th-century engraving of the goldsmith and patron saint of goldsmiths Saint Eligius in his workshop

* Saint Eligius ( circa 588-659 ), Catholic patron saint of goldsmiths and other metalworkers

Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine ( now France ).

St. Eligius is the Patron Saint of the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers.

Among other goldsmith's work soon entrusted to Eligius were the bas-reliefs for the tomb of Saint Germain, Bishop of Paris.

Eligius was a source of edification at court, where he and his friend Dado lived according to the strict Irish monastic rule that had been introduced into Gaul by Saint Columbanus.

* Patron Saints Index: Saint Eligius

A local farrier, Peter Drippel, built one of these in 1517 and it was consecrated to the patron saint of his craft, Saint Eligius.

" In fact, the hospital is so poorly thought of that its shrine to St. Eligius is commonly defiled by hospital staff and visitors, and is referred to by Dr. Wayne Fiscus as " the patron saint of longshoremen and bowlers.

REME's patron saint is St Eligius ; he is the traditional patron of all smiths, metal workers, and craftsmen.

Later Eligius went to Neustria, the kingdom of the Franks, where he worked under Babo, the royal treasurer, on whose recommendation Clotaire II, king of the Franks, is said to have commissioned him to make a throne of gold adorned with precious stones.

:' 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 ".

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.

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.

Eligius took advantage of this royal favor to obtain alms for the poor, and to ransom captive Romans, Gauls, Bretons, Moors, and especially Saxons, who were arriving daily at the slave market in Marseilles.

Elsewhere revealed that the events of the series were all the fantasy of an autistic boy who owned a snow globe housing a likeness of the St. Eligius hospital.

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

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.

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.

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

An important study about the work of Eligius as a goldsmith was contributed by the German scholar Hayo Vierck to the Joachim Werner Festschrift in 1974.

The village of Roule, which became a suburb in 1722, was a small locality called Romiliacum by Frédégaire, Crioilum by Saint Eligius, then Rolus in the 12th century.

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 '.

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.