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> Can anyone point me in the direction of an image of a pilgrim badge of St
> Eloi? I'd particularly like to locate one involving the horse which he shod
> by removing its legs one at a time and replacing them. (It seems to have
> been a prticularly difficult horse.) Google has found me one in the London
> Museum but it doesn't include the horse, just the Bishop himself and his
> blacksmithing tools.
Dear Pat,
It may be a bit disappointing, but one of the several St Eloi pilgrim badges in the
Cluny Museum includes a rather small horse, which is a reference to St Eloi's
miraculous shoeing, but St Eloi is not represented "in action", so to speak. See
Denis Bruna, Enseignes de pelerinage et enseignes profanes, Musee National du
Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny (Paris, 1996), no. 175, p. 132. You were actually on
the right track to begin with, for the Museum of London has several St Eloi pilgrim
badges with quite prominent horses; they may not be illustrated on the internet, but
they can be found in Brian Spencer, Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges,
Museum of London, Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, 7 (London, 1998),
pp. 220-23.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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