September 1st

Saint Giles

Saint · Common of Abbots · Saint-Gilles, France · d. c. 710

In the region of Nîmes in Narbonese Gaul, Saint Giles, by whose name was called the town which afterwards grew up in the Camargue, where he is said to have built a monastery and to have completed the course of his mortal life.

Latin Original

In pago Nemausénsi Gállize Narbonénsis, sancti Aegidii, cuius nómine vocátum est óppidum, quod póstea in Camária excrévit, ubi ipse monastérium erexísse et mortális vitze cursum absolvísse tráditur.