L'UOMO DEL BASTONE - SANT'EGIDIO ABBATE (first part)
The cult of St. Giles, Lingfield is a cult of a stick of silver, a powerful talisman, which is to stop the fire on the Mount.
The church of Sant'Egidio Abate is the oldest among the churches that exist today at Lingfield. Almost certainly it was built after the period of Norman domination. When in 1145 Linguagrossa is already a reality, there was a small church nestled in the woods just where today stands the Ragabo Church of Sant'Egidio, one of the church today is not the Gothic portal into the wall east of the transept. When it was decided to demolish it to build a bigger decided to enter the old website in memory, the same as a result was never used as a secondary entrance. In fact you can clearly see that the same is moved to the right of the central axis of the wall. Another exception is made for this portal that gave rise to much discussion among scholars of history home. We like to bring the description here and learned a bit too verbose, which makes the author of "Anonino" a History of Lingfield end of the eighteenth century:
"Our ancient rose to arms of a nymph City Serena grasping two snakes. If right after on the Reduction to the land had lifted the eagle as a sign of royal arms. From the fiction of the ancient Veruno there is no doubt that you can use many different raccorre. Others pursuing the precepts of religion, morality and other similar computations favors. Thus the allegory of the Nymphs is denoted the work of nature, for them there is signified the virtue vegetative consistent mood prepared, for which you build, nutrition and augumento of things. Ocean are said to be daughters, mothers of the Rivers, nudrici of Bacchus and Ceres, are said to be fruit trees, flowers of vague, che pascono l’armenti e mantengono la vita dei mortali. In breve tutela, come sono i monti, le valli, i porti i boschi e gli alberi per esser la virtù di esso umore sparso nelle predette cose... Altri però le dipinsero in figure di Serene colla coda di pesce, ma sia come si voglia, l’una e l’altra allude alla istoria, poicchè le Serene, come di sopra si è detto, abitarono le sponde del Fiume Aci. Dai serpi varie ancora moralità se ne possono ricavare, per essi ci vengono simboleggiati i Demonii, così in diverse parti della Sacra Scrittura... quasicchè sebbene a guisa di questo fiume da Mongibello sorgesse in ogni modo non trae del rozzo e succido di quel tartareo fuoco anzicchè impugna e fortemente resists Demons trying to keep them far from him. And with this change turned our old one that was secular in true Catholic moral teaching that it is giving us the roots of Mount Etna in the fire according to the common opinion of many serious writers ... communication with the hell we should always stay vigilant and strong to withstand not leave us to plunder our bitterest enemies of the demons and scroll BA short space of our lives in the crystal clear sea of \u200b\u200bthis world. And if first representations of the gentle hill adored the Demons then reduced to the faith of Catholicism. "
Some scholars the siren is to symbolize one of the labors of Hercules, "Hercules against the snakes," though not very imaginative is to be discarded altogether. Singular fact that should be further investigated and that the hermitage of St Giles was held in the name of the ancient city Heraclea. The symbol of the mermaid is a symbol used and abused in ancient times and today is used not only in Greece to decorate pillows and blankets. It was carved by the Etruscans in their graves, beautiful example can be seen in the Archaeological Museum of Palermo. In the church of Monte Sant'Angelo even a rose, there are three sirens that bind the hands of the snakes. Finally, in all cases described and the good triumphs over evil.
Recent restorations, to say the least radical it was discovered that the church, although built in a very long period, it is apparent from the various works of construction, and has always been what today has come down to us, no more then the addition of a nave to the transept of the said "Holy Souls", the name comes from the part of Joseph Minutoli of 1878, which is precisely the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Maybe in 1510 we added the bell tower and the sacristy.
What is certain is that the church already existed in 1308, since this would have to pay the tithe to the Vatican. In the sheet number 111 to 886 of the tenth year of 1308-1310 reads: "Presbyter Iohannes cappellanus S. Egidio de ecclesie Language big ", and again for Lingfield and still referring to the same church, in the instructions 103/verso number 524 reads:" cappellanus Languages \u200b\u200blarge tar. II "and the sheet number 107 to 671 reads:" cappellanus casalis Languages \u200b\u200blarge tar. I, gr. X ". (First part)
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