Name that Saint!

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I’m trying to find the identity of a Saint from a painting. He is older, bearded, in robes, with a sword piercing his heart, holding a palm frond, and standing next to a deer. I’ve tried researching but haven’t come up with any results. Does anyone have any idea who this Saint is?
 
Do you happen to have the picture or a link to the picture? That would help. Thanks.
 
For what it’s worth the palm frond usually means they were a martyr and the fact that their is a sword piercing his heart could indicate that was how he was martyred.
 
I think it might be St. Giles. I just googled images of St. Giles and there are some with an arrow through his hand but one has something through his heart.
 
I thought maybe Saint Giles, but technically he’s pierced with an arrow, not a sword. And the heart being pieced with a sword is the same imagery as the piercing of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Is there a possibility that there could be a similarity between the two? Or confusion between him being pierced with an arrow vs. a sword?

Also can you send a link to the image of him pierced through the heart?
 
OP, you might consider sending a PM to CAF member “Shin.” He has a wealth of information on our saints and may be able to help you, but might not chance upon this thread otherwise.
 
I’m still inclined to call it St. Giles, if only because of the deer. To my knowledge, he’s the only Saint ever pictured with a female deer, and he’s never pictured without one.

Also, there are no markings on the head that suggest the main attribute of St. Peter of Verona, his death by axe. Of the images I’ve been looking at of St. Peter of Verona. He always has either an axe in his head, or a large gash in his head, but the dagger through his heart and the palm frond are sometimes, but not always pictured.
 
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I’m still inclined to call it St. Giles, if only because of the deer. To my knowledge, he’s the only Saint ever pictured with a female deer, and he’s never pictured without one.

Also, there are no markings on the head that suggest the main attribute of St. Peter of Verona, his death by axe. Of the images I’ve been looking at of St. Peter of Verona. He always has either an axe in his head, or a large gash in his head, but the dagger through his heart and the palm frond are sometimes, but not always pictured.
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I think so, too. St. Niles the Greek was a hermit who became abbot at Narbonne, France, and was later confessor to Charlemagne.

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