# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-giles
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:22:57.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-giles"
name: "Saint Giles"
slug: "saint-giles"
description: "A hermit in the lower Rhône whose life is almost entirely legend, yet his name stuck hard enough to spawn a town, a pilgrimage route, and centuries of devotion across medieval Europe."
tagline: "Christian hermit"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saint_Giles_closeup.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "640"
deathDate: "710"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.14386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 168
tags:
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  - name: "Religious Figure"
    slug: "religious-figure"
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
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    title: "Aegidius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sveti Egidije"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Szent Egyed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giles"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Saint Gilles"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "متياس جايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gil l'Eremita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Giles lived as a hermit or monk along the lower Rhône, most likely in the 7th century, around 650 to 710. The facts of his life dissolved into hagiography early, leaving more story than record. Still, his cult spread wide. A monastery supposedly founded by him became the seed of a town that took his name, and that town became a pilgrimage centre and a waypoint on the Way of Saint James. The devotion outlasted the man by a millennium.