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	SINT-GILLIS Country : Belgium Province : Stadsgewest Brussel / Région Bruxelles Official names : (nl) Sint-Gillis (fr) Saint-Gilles Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":50.8250000000000028421709430404007434844970703125,"lon":4.3452999999999999403144101961515843868255615234375,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
Dutch	In lazuur een Sint_Egidius, abt, van goud.
French	D'azur à un Saint Egide, abbé, d'or.
English	Azure, the figure of St. Giles Or.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on January 22, 1858.

The arms show St. Giles (also Ægidius, Egidius), the local patron saint. The saint already appeared on the local seal from 1229.

Image gallery

Letterhead +/- 1900
The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930
The arms on a police badge (source)
Postal cancellation
(with Clichy, Heidenheim an der Brenz and Sankt Pölten)

Literature: Servais, 1955

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+|[[File:s-gilles.jpg|center|alt=Wapen van {{PAGENAME}}/Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
+|
+<center>''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''</center><br>
+'''Country''' : Belgium [[File:Belgium.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br>
+'''Province''' : <br>Stadsgewest Brussel / Région Bruxelles<br><br>
+'''Official names :'''
+* (nl) Sint-Gillis
+* (fr) Saint-Gilles
+<br>
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+|}
-'''SINT GILLIS - SAINT GILLES'''
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Official blazon
-Province : Stadsgewest Brussel / Région Bruxelles
+|-
+|'''Dutch'''
-[[File:s-gilles.jpg|center|Wapen van {{PAGENAME}}/Armoiries de {{PAGENAME}}]]
+| In lazuur een Sint_Egidius, abt, van goud.
+|-
-===Official blazon===
+|'''French'''
-*(nl) In lazuur een Sint_Egidius, abt, van goud.
+| D'azur à un Saint Egide, abbé, d'or.
-*(fr) D'azur à un Saint Egide, abbé d'or.
+|-
+|'''English'''
+| Azure, the figure of St. Giles Or.
+|}
 ===Origin/meaning===
 The arms were granted on January 22, 1858.
-The arms show St. Giles, the local patron saint. The saint already appeared on the local seal from 1229.
+The arms show St. Giles (also Ægidius, Egidius), the local patron saint. The saint already appeared on the local seal from 1229.
-{|align="center"
+===Image gallery===
-|align="center"|[[File:st-gilles.hagbe.jpg|center|Wapen van/Blason de {{PAGENAME}}]]  <br/>The arms in the [[Koffie Hag Belgium|Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums]] +/- 1930
+<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0>
-|align="center"|[[File:st-gilles.pol.jpg|center|Wapen van/Blason de {{PAGENAME}}|275 px]]  <br/>The arms on a police badge ([http://blog.seniorennet.be/police_politie_insignes/ source])
+File:Sint-Gillis3.jpg|alt=Wapen van Sint-Gillis/Blason de Saint-Gilles/Arms (crest) of Sint-Gillis|Letterhead +/- 1900
-|}
+File:st-gilles.hagbe.jpg|alt=Wapen van Sint-Gillis/Blason de Saint-Gilles/Arms (crest) of Sint-Gillis|The arms in the [[Koffie Hag Belgium|Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums]] +/- 1930
+File:st-gilles.pol.jpg|alt=Wapen van Sint-Gillis/Blason de Saint-Gilles/Arms (crest) of Sint-Gillis|The arms on a police badge ([http://blog.seniorennet.be/police_politie_insignes/ source])
+File:Sankt Pöltenp.jpg|alt=Wapen van Sint-Gillis/Blason de Saint-Gilles/Arms (crest) of Sint-Gilli|Postal cancellation<br>(with [[Clichy]], [[Heidenheim an der Brenz]] and [[Sankt Pölten]])
+</gallery>
+[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Belgium|'''Literature''']]: Servais, 1955
+{{be}}
 {{media}}
-[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Belgium|Literature]] : Servais, 1955
 [[Category:Belgian Municipal Arms S]]
 [[Category:Brussels]]
 [[Category:Granted 1858]]