Venerable (Monastic) · 8th century
Giles of Nimes
Also known as Aegidius · Giles the Hermit
A hermit and abbot in Provence, widely venerated in the West as a helper of the disabled, the poor, and the outcast
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One of the most popular medieval Western saints; patron of the disabled
Sources: Synaxarion; Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome