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The Abbey of Saint-Gilles (French: Abbaye de Saint-Gilles ) is a monastery in Saint-Gilles, southern France. Founded by Saint Giles , it is included in the UNESCO Heritage List , as part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France .
Saint Giles (/ dʒ aɪ l z /, Latin: Aegidius, French: Gilles, Italian: Egidio, Spanish: Gil; c. 650 - c. 710), 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 mostly legendary.
St Giles' role in the Scottish Reformation and the Covenanters' Rebellion has led to its being called "the Mother Church of World Presbyterianism". [12] St Giles' is one of Scotland's most important medieval parish church buildings. [13] The first church of St Giles' was a small Romanesque building of which only fragments remain. In the 14th ...
Upon founding Holyrood Abbey, the king gave permission for houses to be built towards St Giles’, forming what would become the Royal Mile. The church came under attack twice in the 14th century ...
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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 bound for Santiago de Compostela in Spain, who were following the via Tolosana that led from Arles to Toulouse and crossed the Pyrenees to ...
The interior of the Thistle Chapel, looking west. The Thistle Chapel, located in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland, is the chapel of the Order of the Thistle.. At the foundation of the Order of the Thistle in 1687, James VII ordered Holyrood Abbey be fitted out as a chapel for the Knights.
Sutton Farm is in the Anglican Parish of St. Giles' Church, where there was once a leper hospital, founded 1155, itself dedicated to St Giles and associated with Shrewsbury Abbey. [3] Some 200m further along the Wenlock Road is Armoury Gardens, site where the former militia Armoury stood until it was removed brick by brick to a new site close ...