He was born around the year 588. Silversmith's apprentice, became part of the French Court to serve as such, rising in influence due to his intelligence. King Dagobert thought he was the ideal man to solve the contentious former who had with the neighboring Earl of Britain, sent him as legate, and was right in the election by the favorable outcome obtained. It is not strange that Elligius or Eloy should be requested as a Minister of the Crown. He sponsored the Abbey of Solignac, others were born in Limousin and in Paris, the Church of St. Paul at his expense. Ordained a priest, was consecrated Bishop of Noyon and Tournay and was present at the Council of Chalons-sur-Seine, the 644. He did not succumb to the adoration of perishable things as noble metals and precious gems, and the has been adopted as patron saint of metalworkers, jewelers, and craftsmen.
Celebrate today: Eloy.
View moreSaint Natalia, wife of the martyr saint Adrián; which, in the persecution of Diocletian, served long imprisoned at Nicomedia holy martyrs, and, when these ended the bout, he went to Constantinople, and there rested in peace.
French priest, missionary in the Sahara and martyr of religious persecution.
In Poitiers, Aquitaine, Florence Virgin saint, that converted to the true God by the Bishop Saint-Hilaire during his exile in Asia, then continued you to return to their land in the 4th century.
In Fréjus, Provence, Saint Leontius, who favored the monastic life of Saint-Honorat Islands on the island of Lérins, and Bishop saint Juan Casiano, his friend, devoted to the first ten collations, died about the year 433.
In London, England, Saints Edmundo Campion, Rodolfo Sherwin and Alejandro Briant, priests and martyrs during the reign of Isabel I, distinguished by its strength and character.
Commemoration of St. Nahum (or Saint Nahún), Prophet, who preached God as that governs the evolution of time and judging the peoples with justice.