As we have seen the Church of St Giles was built in the late twelfth century, and it is the Normans as they have done the rest of Europe to spread the cult of the saint, in Sicily as well as Lingfield that other church dedicated to St Giles is located in Mazara del Vallo, now this is closed to worship and will soon be reopened to house a museum.
There are very few known documents that give us news of the church and worship the holy French, one in particular is of paramount importance, that of Tarascon Notaries Antonino on 25 August 1669, which states: "Who will be to observe , hear, or read this, it is known, as this beloved city Lingfield having chosen the glorious Saint Egidio Abate for his owner, patron and protector, following the manifest miracle, that the great God to manifest degnossi for the intercession of that glorious saint, who freely and yet does not cease to intercede and free from eruptions of Mount Etna and from all the evils of this country, as transmitted by referring to the venerable tradition principle of the foundation and building of this city, some of the people said they saw the saint in his pontifical vestments and a miter on the head; benefit of his pastoral staff as Mosaic , just touching the altar on fire, that is, volcanic eruption of Etna dashing and threatening the city, the Church of it, it settled, and yet, allowing God, the law required them not to run more than that and never molest the city \u200b\u200bentrusted to him. And this city that always protect solemnize the feast of the glorious same Sant'Egidio September 1 of each year, at its own expense, as clearly appears to the many costs of the mandates of this community. "
In another document prepared by the Sac. Pafumi Francisco in the late nineteenth century says:" Before the new church was built Mother (1613) of our town, which verificossi in the beginning of the seventeenth century, there was the ancient Mother Church dedicated to St Mary (1510), but later was dedicated to our patron saint. In this Church from time immemorial, there was a wall in the effigy of the saint in the abbey dress with machine guns and bacolo. In 1556, a terrible eruption of Mount Etna in early November, more than the damage caused to a large part of the territory, overwhelms the whole country. At this juncture, the people fled, he stayed at home a crippled old woman resident in the vicinity of the Church and seeing the fire behind trascinossi barely crawling to the church and inspired by the Lord invoked the name of Giles, and oh wonder! Egidio is the close, touches with the stick and returns the old force command to ring the bell of the Church so to retrieve the missing citizens, making sure that the eruption ceased promising for the future of his protection; returning citizens and in course of time on the same lava rebuilt homes, and the district by the sad memory of the fact is still called by the name of Sciara Saracens. "
The Tarascon spoke of "Quidam populi," ie the people and not a crippled old woman in popular piety which will then give her the nickname "'zza Linguarossa.
The reason for so few documents pertaining to Lingfield Sant'Egidio can only be explained by a fire in 1667 destroyed part of the Archives of the Mother Church. (End)
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