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).

Kaburi lake huko Saint-Gilles-du-Gard 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.)
• (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