Egidi mkaapweke

Sehemu ya mchoro wa mwaka 1500 hivi.

Egidi mkaapweke (kwa Kifaransa: Gilles; 650 hivi – 710 hivi) alikuwa mmonaki Mgiriki kutoka Athens, ingawa habari za maisha yake kiini chake ni mikoa ya Provence na Septimania (leo Ufaransa Kusini).

Inasemekana alianzisha monasteri ambayo ilizaa kijiji kilichopewa jina lake (Saint-Gilles-du-Gard).

Kaburi lake huko limekuwa kituo muhimu cha hija kutoka Arles kwenda Santiago de Compostela kumhesimu mtume Yakobo Mkubwa.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 1 Septemba.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Vyanzo

• Vita sancti Aegidii (Acta sanctorum, 9 September, 299-304)
• Legenda Aurea, 130: Sanctus Egidius (On-line text, in Caxton's translation Archived 14 Agosti 2014 at the Wayback Machine.)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey; Schmidt, Aubrey Vincent Carlyle (1976). The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 0-8419-0219-4.
• Wyschogrod, Edith (1990). Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-92043-7.

Viungo vya nje

• Media related to Egidi mkaapweke at Wikimedia Commons
• St. Giles, Abbot from The Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler
• The Carnegie Museum of Art: St. Gilles Archived 14 Mei 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
• Saint Giles, Abbot and Confessor at the Christian Iconography web site
• Here Followeth the Life of St. Giles from Caxton's translation of the Golden Legend

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