Saint-Gilles, Gard
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Saint-Gilles, also known as Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, is a commune in the French department of Gard, and the administrative region of Occitania, southern France.
West portal of the abbey church
Saint Giles
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Saint Giles, also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 7th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is m
Saint-Gilles, Gard
…most populous commune in the Nîmes metropolitan area. The abbey of Saint-Gilles was founded during the seventh century traditionally by the hermit Saint Giles (Latin Ægidius), whose relics the abbey possessed. The commune formed around the nucleus of the abbey, which was the first stopping point for pilgrims…
Detail of Saint Giles and the Hind, by the Master of Saint Giles c. 1500
Saint Giles, Abbot, by Bartolomé Román, Museo del Prado, Madrid.