Sant 'Eligio of Noyon, or Alo or LO (Chaptelat, about 588 - Noyon, 1 December 660), was a goldsmith, then a senior official of the court of the Merovingian kings, is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. It is the patron saint of goldsmiths, of numismatists, farriers and veterinarians; would miraculously reattached the leg of a horse, the saint had great popularity in the Middle Ages, the Roman Martyrology fixed for His feast date of 1 December. Today, the day of his party, in some places making the blessing of the French horses. The tradition is also found in Italy, for example in Sciara, in the province of Palermo.
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