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Graphite on Canson paper, 50 × 65 cm format (grape), 1990

Born in Athens about the middle of the VIIth century, Aegidius, illustrated by miracles, Greece flees and takes refuge in Provence. The city of Arles, and the hermit Vérédème refugee board Gardon, welcomed. Then Aegidius retired alone in the valley Flavian to meditate with a doe for a companion. The latter, driven by the King Wamba, causing the latter's meeting with St Gilles who is injured by the arrow of a hunter. Wamba moved, offers in St Gilles Valley Flavian to construct its abbey. This stands the Benedictine monastery dedicated to St Peter and St Paul at the end of the VIIth century. Saint-Gilles died there in 720 or 721. His legend spread quickly and pilgrims from across Europe came more and more gather at his tomb remained intact in the crypt of the Abbey of Saint-Gilles, tomb which was one of four major clusters pilgrimage of medieval Christendom.

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