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Many thanks for this, Jim, and also to John Shinners for the BillyandCharlie
site which is great fun, though not as rude as I'd hoped from his comment.
Clearly the Museum of London is the first line to pursue for the image I'm
after.
I had connected St Eloi with Chaucer's Prioress's Saint Loy, and with the
Eligius form of his name, but hadn't made the further leap to Aloysius. [So
Mozart's inamorata, Aloysia Weber, whose sister he married, was effectively
called Eloise. Sorry, I know it's out of period!] But was the name ever in
popular use in Britain in any form, male or female? I know he was patron
saint of all hammermen, there were altars to him in many large churches,
even Perth had a relic though what it was is no longer known, and one wd
expect a member of the Hammermen's Incorporation whatever it was called to
name one of his offspring for the saint. But I don't recall noticing such a
use.
Pat
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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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