Blessed Giles of Saumur

Memorial

• 23 April

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Chaplain to King Saint Louis IX. Accompanied the king on Crusade. Bishop of Damietta, Egypt in 1243. Archbishop of Tyre, Lebanon in 1245.

Died

• 1266 at Dinant, Belgium of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Giles of Saumur”. Saints.SQPN.com. 22 April 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-giles-of-samur/>