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PARIS (PARISIUS) - Saint Eligius

(7th century)

Éloi de Noyon (v. 588 - December 1, 659), Bishop of Noyon, goldsmith and coiner, held the position of Minister of Finance to Dagobert I. Éloi was born in Chaptelat near Limoges in Limousin around 588 to wealthy Gallo-Roman parents, owners of several large estates, including one in Ambazac, and had interests in the exploitation of gold mines in the South-West of Aquitaine.. He was placed by his father, in apprenticeship in Limoges with Abbon, a renowned goldsmith, who made coins. According to Saint Ouen, during his apprenticeship, he "frequently attended church services, where he listened with great avidity to all that was said of the divine scriptures.. "However, a few years later, circumstances that God, in his providence, had undoubtedly brought about, determined him to leave his homeland and his family to go alone to France". That is to say north of the Loire, and more precisely in Paris. Éloi entered the service of the goldsmith Bobbon, who received an order from King Clotaire II for the manufacture of a golden throne adorned with precious stones.. Clotaire II gave Bobbon the amount of gold needed to make the seat, which was passed on to Éloi. This one made two thrones by avoiding the fraud on the quantity of gold by not taking "the pretext of the bites of the file, or that of the too great ardor of the fire". The goldsmith Éloi became controller of mines and metals, master of coins, then grand treasurer of the kingdom of Clotaire II, then treasurer of Dagobert I before being elected bishop of Noyon in 641. Although still secular, he was raised in 640 on the seat of Noyon. After his election as Bishop of Noyon, Saint Eloi spent twenty years converting the Druidic population of the Belgian Netherlands to Christianity.. His companion Saint Ouen recounts it in his Vita d'Eligius. Invested with all the confidence of Dagobert I, he fulfilled the most important missions and succeeded in particular in bringing Judicaël, Duke of the Bretons, to submit his submission in 636. SourceWikipedia.