Sorry for the delay......
The Pardon is in June but I haven't got a date: my guess is that it's
variable rather than set by the calendar feast. But that's just a
guess.....
Interestingly, most of the statues we saw showed Eloi not at his smithing
job but simply holding a severed horse leg- generally dripping with blood.
Bonnie
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From: "stephen buckley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Horses and Wells
> How fascinating: Eloi is patron of goldsmiths, blacksmiths and farriers.
His
> principal emblem is a horseshoe, and he is shown in a 14th C depiction
> shoeing a horse whose leg he had previously removed and restored (Oxford
> Dictionary of Saints).
>
> When you say feast day, is this 1 December, or the translation on 25 June
> (at Ely, at any rate)? Is there a different feast day in Brittany?
>
> Christine Buckley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tom campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Horses and Wells
>
>
> > We just saw a wonderful well to St Eloi in Brittany complete with
cobbled
> > tank through which local horses troop on the saint's feast day. There
are
> > quite a few wells dedicated to the saint there but we did think that it
> was
> > a nice touch to cobble the path into the water so the horses would have
> > secure footing.
> >
> > Bonnie and Tom Campbell
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Francine Nicholson" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:45 PM
> > Subject: Horses and Wells
> >
> >
> > > Hello all:
> > >
> > > Is anyone aware of a connection between horses and wells in any
customs?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > Francine Nicholson
> > >
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