Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust:
"Well, now, that's Saint Hilaire, who in certain provinces is also called, you know, Saint Illiers, Saint Hélier, and even, in the Jura, Saint Ylie. And these various corruptions of sanctus Hilarius are not the most curious that have occurred in the names of the blessed. For instance, your own patron, my good Eulalie, sancta Eulalia—do what she is in Burgundy? Santi Éloi, quite simply: she has become a male saint. You see Eulalie?—after you die they will turn you into a man."
Ooh, I like that one, the name and the pic hang together really well, I reckon. It's a name that has kind of faux-Dickensian overtones to me, as there was a character of that name in a novel I read as a child (by Joan Aiken, fwiw)
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