Giles and Arcanus

Giles and Arcanus are two pilgrims honoured as the founders of the town of Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany. Giles was born in Spain, and Arcanus was Italian. They brought relics from Palestine and founded a monastery to enshrine them; Borgo San Sepolcro later grew out of it. They reposed around the year 1050. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Their commemoration falls on 1 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 14 September of the civil calendar.