Re: St. Hildevert

[Fred Sawyer]

Hildevert is a Catholic saint - recognized primarily in the north-central
region of France, but he once also had a following in England.  He probably
had nothing to do with dialing.  There are a number of 'saints' who had
some interest in sundials, but that's not what I was primarily interested
in.  What I wanted was to find a patron saint who, at some point in
history, was adopted as such by an identifiable group of dialists.  From my
perspective, an established tradition is of more interest than trying to
justify any new assignment.   Hildevert was the official patron saint of
French workers in lace and ivory.  Given the ivory sundial industry in
France, French dialists adopted him as their patron.

As I often point out - this sort of information would be familiar to those
who subscribe to The Compendium!  You can read two very brief articles on
Hildevert by downloading the file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuwfyzw2065ps6n/Hildevert.pdf?dl=0

Fred


On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Eric Daled  wrote:

> Hi Fred,
> Can you tell us a little bit more about this man ?
> As far as I know (from Wikipedia ;-) he was a French ecclesiastic, bishop
> of Le Mans, etc... but nothing about any gnomonistic activity.
> Regards,
> Eric Daled
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> > Op 27 mei 2017 om 15:04 heeft Fred Sawyer  het
> volgende geschreven:
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> > Happy St. Hildevert's Day - patron saint of dialists.
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Re: St. Hildevert

[Dan-George Uza]

Is this an official Catholic saint? Can't find him here for today

http://catholicsaints.info/27-may/


Dan



On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Fred Sawyer  wrote:

> Happy St. Hildevert's Day - patron saint of dialists.
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