Saint Eligius, aka Saint Eloy, (June 588–1 December 660 AD) was chief counsellor to Dagobert I, Merovingian king of France. Appointed the bishop of Noyon-Tournai three years after the king’s death in 642, Eligius worked for 20 years to convert the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity…
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Miracle of St Eligius, between 1490 and 1492
Tempera on panel
Height: 21.0 cm; Width: 269.0 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Zaidan Gallery 