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 <eric.da...@telenet.be> 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 > > > (iPad) > > > Op 27 mei 2017 om 15:04 heeft Fred Sawyer <fwsaw...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > > > Happy St. Hildevert's Day - patron saint of dialists. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > >
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