Capitolo 50
after Ouen it became his/her biographer. His/her description of Eloi
I wait personal it is value quoting, to show the kind of figure a
mediaevals sanctify sometimes cut in front of the canonization. "He was tall, with
a red face, his/her hair and beard curly. Its hands did well, and his
fingers crave, its face full of the angelic sweetness.... For first him
brought habits covered with pearls and precious stones; he also had
belts sewn with pearls. Its suit was made out of flax crusted with gold,
and the edges of its tunic repaired with gold embroidery. Indeed, his
to dress was very expensive, and some of his/her suits were of silk. This way
it was his/her exterior in his/her first period to court, and he dressed this way
to avoid the singleness; but under this garment he brought a lot raw
cloth, and later, he cleared him some ornaments to assuage the
suffering; and it is probable that he is seen with only a circle of rope his/her life
and dressed common. Sometimes the king, seeing so that he, dispossessed of
its rich attire, would take away its his/her own mantle and would encircle and it would give
them to him, saying: 'It is not appropriate that those for that they indulge
the world should richly be dressed, and that those that you/they steal
they for Christ should be without glory.'"
Among the numerous virtues of St. Eloi that was of a constant
performing of his/her true beliefs and theories, if men were able
quixotic considers him/it or not. He was strongly opposite to the institution
of slavery. In those days you/he/she would have been futile to preach actual
emancipation. The times were not mature. But St. Eloi did everybody that him
it was able for the cause of the liberty investing the most greater part of his/her money in
enslaved, and putting then them to the liberty. He would sometimes surround"
a market of whole slave, buying so many how much thirty to one hundred to a
time. Some of these people of manumitted became his really believer
followers: some digitaronos the religious life, and others devoted them