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See also: born at See also: Cadillac, near See also: Limoges, in 588
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Having at an early age shown See also: artistic talent he was placed by his parents with the master of the mint at Limoges, where he made rapid progress in goldsmith's See also: work
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He became coiner to See also: Clotaire II., See also: king of the Franks, and treasurer to his successor Dagobert
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Both
See also: kings entrusted him with important See also: works, among which were the composition of the bas-reliefs which See also: ornament the See also: tomb of St Germain, See also: bishop of See also: Paris, and the execution (for Clotaire) of two chairs of gold, adorned with jewels, which at that See also: time were reckoned chefs-d'ceuvre
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Though he was amassing See also: great See also: wealth, See also: Eloi acquired a distaste for a worldly See also: life, and resolved to become a See also: priest
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At first he retired to a monastery, but in 64o was raised to the bishopric of See also: Noyon
.
He made frequent missionary excursions to the pagans of the Low Countries, and also founded a great many monasteries and churches
.
He died on the 1st of See also: December 659
.
A mass of See also: legend has gathered round the life of St Eloi, who as the See also: patron See also: saint of goldsmiths is still very popular
.
His life was written by his friend and contemporary St Ouen (Audoenus) ; French See also: translations of the Vita S
.
Eligii auctore Audoeno were published by L. de Montigny (Paris, 1626), by C
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See also: Barthelemy in Etudes hist., lit', et See also: art
.
(it) . 1847), and by Parenty, with notes (2nd ed., ib . 1870) . For bibliography see See also: Potthast, Bibliotheca hist. med. aevi (Berlin, 1896), s.v
.
" Vita S
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Eligii Noviomensis," and Ulysse Chevalier, See also: Rep. See also: des See also: sources hist., Bio-bibl
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(Paris, 1894), s
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