Giles of Sansepolcro

Saint Giles of Sansepolcro was a pilgrim and hermit, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church at Sansepolcro in Tuscany, together with his companion Arcanus. According to a tradition written down from 1418, the two are the pilgrims who at the end of the 10th century founded at the place called Noceati, in the territory of Città di Castello, an oratory to keep relics from the Holy Sepulchre and other holy places of the Holy Land. Around this oratory a Benedictine abbey grew, attested from the year 1012, and the town born in the 11th century around the abbey is the present town of Sansepolcro.

Saints Giles and Arcanus are honored as founders of the town and for this reason were the object of a civic cult throughout the Middle Ages and the modern period. Although they are not patrons of the town, they became a mark of the town and its inhabitants; the town's feast was once held on 1 September. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.