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St Eligius and the horse are also the subject of a relief, now in the 
North porch, from the parish church of St Peter & St Paul in my home 
town of Wincanton. The church may previously have been dedicated to him:
http://dawsonheritage.co.uk/somerset_churches/photo.asp?ChoosePhoto=567WincantonSSPeterandPaul_carving.jpg

He also makes an appearance in Chaucer's General Prologue:

Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE,
That of hir smiling was ful symple and coy;
Hir grettest ooth was but by Seinte Loy ...

Jane Wickenden



On 01/12/2016 09:51, Gordon Plumb wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> An album of views of the Angers St Eligius window
>
> Angers, Cathédrale Saint-Maurice, Bay 107, lancet to right, Life of St 
> Eligius, c.1225-35:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/albums/72157660151747127
>
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> To: MEDIEVAL-RELIGION <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, Dec 1, 2016 7:38 am
> Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (December 1): St. Eligius
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Eligius (d. 659/660; Éloi, Aloy, Aloisio, Loise, etc., etc.) was a 
> pious goldsmith of Gallo-Roman origin who served as master of the mint 
> at Marseille under the Frankish kings Chlotar II and Dagobert I. One 
> of the latter's _familiares_, he distinguished himself by ransoming 
> prisoners of war and by founding monasteries at Solignac in his native 
> Limousin and at Paris. Shortly after Dagobert's death in 639 Eligius 
> took holy orders. In 641 he was elected bishop of Noyon-Tournai. He 
> founded monasteries in his diocese and undertook missionary work in 
> Flanders. A Carolingian-period collection of sermons circulated under 
> his name (it's now known as the Pseudo-Eligius).
>
> Eligius' Vita by his friend Audoenus (Ouen, Dado) of Rouen survives in 
> a later reworking (BHL 2474). Jo Ann McNamara's English-language 
> translation may be read here:
> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/eligius.html
> That Vita's morality tale (cap. 47) of the greedy bishop and the late 
> Eligius' horse combined with Eligius' having been a smith may have 
> given rise to the story, popular in the later Middle Ages, of the 
> saint's removing a lower leg (or just a hoof) of a horse that needed 
> to be shod, shoeing the hoof, and then re-attaching to the unharmed 
> beast the member in question. Eligius, who is also a patron of 
> goldsmiths and of jewelers, thus became a patron of blacksmiths and 
> farriers and is often represented with a hammer or with the horse's 
> lower leg.
>
> Today (1. December) is Eligius' feast day in many places and his day 
> of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. In the diocese of Beauvais, 
> Noyon, and Senlis his feast is kept on the first Sunday of December. 
> In some locales in northern France and in Belgium it is kept on other 
> days in late November or early December.
>
>
> Some period-pertinent images of St. Eligius:
>
> a) as depicted (at left) in a mid-twelfth-century copy, of Limousin 
> origin, of Usuard's Martyrology (Paris: BNF, Nouvelle acquisition 
> latine 214, fol. 100v):
> http://tinyurl.com/y8vyuvm
>
> b) as depicted (nine scenes) in the earlier thirteenth-century St. 
> Eligius and St. Nicholas window (bay 18; ca. 1235) in the cathédrale 
> Saint-Étienne in Auxerre:
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Auxerre/w18.htm
>
> c) as depicted (scenes) in the earlier thirteenth-century Life of St. 
> Eligius lancet in a choir window devoted to the lives of St. Peter and 
> St. Eligius (bay 107; ca. 1240) in the cathédrale Saint-Maurice in Angers:
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-1.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-3.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-4.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-5.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-6.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Angers/w107R-7.htm
>
> d) as twice depicted (protecting the chapel of Saint-Martial from a 
> fire engulfing Paris; healing a paralytic in the abbey church of 
> Saint-Denis) in the _Rouleau de saint Éloi_ in the Musée Carnavalet in 
> Paris, the only known surviving portion of a seemingly earlier 
> thirteenth-century (ca. 1240) Life of the saint created in the abbey 
> of Noyon:
> http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/fr/collections/rouleau-de-saint-eloi
> http://tinyurl.com/gqhaa9f
>
> e) as depicted (at left) in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images 
> de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition 
> française 16251, fol. 88r):
> http://tinyurl.com/ykepc4g
>
> f) as depicted in a fourteenth-century glass window (bay 19, Scenes of 
> St. Eligius and of St. Thomas of Canterbury ) in Rouen's église 
> abbatiale de Saint-Ouen:
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Rouen-St-Ouen/w19-A.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Rouen-St-Ouen/w19-B.htm
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Rouen-St-Ouen/w19-C.htm
>
> g) as depicted in a fourteenth-century fresco in the church of the 
> Holy Cross in Slapton (Northants):
> http://www.paintedchurch.org/slapeloi.htm
>
> h) as depicted in a panel of the early fourteenth-century Smiths' 
> Window (bay 37, Schmiedefenster; 1320) in the Münster in Freiburg im 
> Breisgau:
> http://www.michaelseeger.de/muenster/eligius.jpg
> A better view of the panel as a whole (but the caption is a tad 
> uninformed):
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Freiburg/n37-b2.htm
>
> i) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of the _Legenda 
> aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 
> 1326-1350; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, 182r):
> http://tinyurl.com/ybnz6ej
>
> j) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language 
> legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the 
> Fauvel Master (ca. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 248v):
> http://tinyurl.com/y8vy8cv
>
> k) as portrayed in relief in the mid-fourteenth-century structural 
> member above the left jambs on the north portal of Öja kyrka, Öja 
> (Gotlands län):
> http://tinyurl.com/jzwo7zf
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/hq53asc
>
> l) as depicted (grayscale view) in a now lost panel from the later 
> fourteenth-century rood screen of St Andrew in Hempstead (Norfolk):
> http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hempstead/Eligius.jpg
>
> m) as depicted in a fifteenth(?)-century pen-and-ink drawing in the 
> margin of a page of a later tenth- or early eleventh-century copy of 
> Audoenus' Vita of the saint (Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1028, 
> fol. 32r):
> http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_051007-p.jpg
>
> n) as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in Holy Trinity Church in 
> Wensley (N. Yorks):
> http://www.paintedchurch.org/wenseloi.htm
>
> o) as depicted (at right) in a heavily restored fifteenth-century 
> fresco in the Church of St Lawrence in Broughton (Bucks):
> http://www.paintedchurch.org/broubhel.htm
>
> p) as portrayed in a pair of fifteenth-century spandrel sculptures in 
> the collégiale Sainte-Croix in Liège:
> http://www.fabrice-muller.be/sc/iconographie/saint-eloi.html
>
> q) as depicted in a probably early fifteenth-century vault fresco, 
> last restored in 2007, in Højby Kirke, Højby (Odsherred Kommune) in 
> Sjælland:
> http://tinyurl.com/zwooofs
>
> r) as depicted (left-hand column; right-hand column, St. Nicholas of 
> Myra) in the early fifteenth-century Hours of René of Anjou (ca. 
> 1405-1410; London, BL, Egerton MS 1070, fol. 81r; image zoomable):
> http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_1070_f081r
>
> s) as twice portrayed in a pair of early fifteenth-century sculptures 
> (statue and historiated base) by Nanni di Banco for an exterior niche 
> of Florence's chiesa di Orsanmichele (betw. 1411 and 1415; original 
> and recent copy; the originals are inside in the Museo):
> 1) Statue (original):
> http://tinyurl.com/pdzr3uh
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/hzj8tmk
> 2) Statue (recent copy placed in the niche):
> http://tinyurl.com/ylmktbk
> 3) Base (recent copy placed at the niche):
> http://tinyurl.com/2e8a9og
>
> t) as depicted in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary 
> (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 204v):
> http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_054049-p.jpg
>
> u) as depicted by János Váci in the earlier fifteenth-century missal 
> (1423) of the goldsmiths' guild of Vác, now in the National Széchenyi 
> Library in Budapest:
> http://mek.oszk.hu/01900/01949/html/index261.html
>
> v) as depicted (at center; at right, St. Anthony of Egypt) in an 
> earlier fifteenth-century fresco (1439) in the chapter room 
> (interpreted by some as a refectory) of the eremo di Santa Caterina in 
> Leggiuno (VA) in Lombardy:
> http://tinyurl.com/zmymhj2
>
> w) as depicted by Guillaume Vrelant in a mid- or slightly later 
> fifteenth-century book of hours of Flemish origin (Bruges; ca. 
> 1455-1465; Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, Morgan ms. M.387, fol. 
> 96v):
> http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/icaimages/3/m387.096va.jpg
>
> x) as portrayed in relief by Giovanni Gaggini on the 
> mid-fifteenth-century tombstone (1459) for the goldsmiths' company in 
> the basilica di Santa Maria delle Vigne in Genoa:
> http://tinyurl.com/nwc4k73
>
> y) as twice depicted (consecration as bishop; miracle of the horse's 
> leg) by a follower of Rogier van der Weyden in a mid- or slightly 
> later fifteenth-century drawing (1460s?; sketch for an altarpiece) in 
> the Musée du Louvre in Paris (click on the images to expand):
> http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/7/110876-Triptyque-de-saint-Eloi
> http://en.muzeo.com/art-print/triptyque-de-saint-eloi/van-der-weyden-rogier
>
> z) as portrayed in a later fifteenth-century vault boss in the 
> katholische Pfarrkirche St. Laurentius in Bremm (Lkr. Cochem-Zell) in 
> Rheinland-Pfalz:
> http://www.bremm.info/img/kirche/figur3.jpg
>
> aa) as depicted (several panels accessible via hotlinks) by Niccolò da 
> Varallo in his late fifteenth-century St. Eligius window (betw. 1480 
> and 1486) in Milan's cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Nascente:
> http://tinyurl.com/2uhur9x
>
> bb) as depicted (scenes) by the Master of the Apocalypse of Aymar de 
> Poitiers in a detached leaf, from a late fifteenth-century book of 
> hours, in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
> http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/0/111483-Saint-Eloi
> http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/0/111483-Saint-Eloi-max
>
> cc) as depicted by Sandro Botticelli on the predella of his late 
> fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Coronation of the BVM (betw. 1490 
> and 1492) in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence:
> http://tinyurl.com/gsmj2xg
>
> dd) as depicted (left margin at bottom) in a hand-colored woodcut in 
> the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century 
> _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. CLIIr:
> http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/6th_age/right_page/55%20%28Folio%20CLIIr%29.pdf
>
> ee) as depicted (center panel at right; on the outer panels: St. 
> Anthony of Egypt, St. Sebastian) by Hans Leu the Elder in a late 
> fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1495) in the Schweizerisches 
> Nationalmuseum in Zürich:
> http://tinyurl.com/p37m4au
>
> ff) as depicted (at center) in a late fifteenth- or early 
> sixteenth-century panel painting attributed to the Master of the 
> Madonna della Misericordia in the Museo del Prado in Madrid:
> http://tinyurl.com/yacukul
>
> gg) as portrayed in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century 
> polychromed wooden bust (ca. 1495-1505) in the Museo civico in Bolzano:
> http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7005723.JPG
>
> hh) as portrayed in relief on an early sixteenth-century vault boss 
> (ca. 1501-1510) in the nave of late fifteenth- / early 
> sixteenth-century St. Eligius Kapelle in Krewinkel (Gemeinde 
> Büllingen) in Belgium:
> http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10094445
>
> ii) as depicted (at right) in an early sixteenth-century fresco in the 
> chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Salbertrand (TO) in Piedmont:
> http://tinyurl.com/jy2ze5a
>
> jj) as depicted (scenes) in the early sixteenth-century St. Eligius 
> window (bay 0; 1506) in the église de la Madeleine in Troyes:
> http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Troyes-St-Madelein/w0-Frame.htm
>
> kk) as portrayed (at center) in the early sixteenth-century 
> polychromed wooden statues of the Messkirch altarpiece (1519; 
> manufactured in Ulm) in the Museum Schnütgen in Köln:
> http://tinyurl.com/px96mta
> Detail view (Eligius):
> http://tinyurl.com/gm3jsa3
>
> ll) as portrayed by Niklaus Manuel in an early sixteenth-century panel 
> painting (1515) in the Kunstmuseum Bern:
> http://www.wga.hu/art/m/manuel/eligius.jpg
>
> mm) as portrayed in relief (at left) in an earlier sixteenth-century 
> polychromed wooden compartment (for an altarpiece?; from Laupheim; ca. 
> 1520) in the Liebighaus in Frankfurt am Main:
> http://tinyurl.com/qcpnn5j
>
> nn) as depicted by Adam Schlanz on a wing of an earlier 
> sixteenth-century altarpiece (1523) in the Stephanskapelle in 
> Genhofen, a locality of Stiefenhofen (Lkr. Lindau) in Bayern:
> http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7017155.JPG
> The altar as a whole:
> http://tinyurl.com/jcthr9k
>
> Best,
> John Dillon
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