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Giles, St.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The patron saint of cripples, beggars, and lepers; was himself a cripple, due to his refusal to be cured of a wound that he might learn to mortify the flesh; was fed by the milk of a hind that visited him daily; had once at his monastery a long interview with St. Louis, without either of them speaking a word to the other.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Giles, St.'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​g/giles-st.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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