Lesmes of Burgos
Lesmes Burgos (also Adelelmo etc .; * 1035 in Loudun , Poitou , † 1097 in Burgos , Castilla ) was shortly after his death by the people as holy venerable Benedictine - monk and abbot ; his feast day is January 30th.
Vita
Adelelmus was born into a wealthy patrician family; later he became a soldier. He met Robert von Molesme , the abbot of Cîteaux . Shortly afterwards he gave away his paternal inheritance, became a monk and later (1078) abbot of the monastery of La Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne . Constanze of Burgundy , the French wife of the Castilian king Alfonso VI. , operated a rapprochement between Cluny Abbey and Spain, where the Mozarabic rite was still practiced, but which she wanted to abolish. At her instigation, Adelelmus came to northern Spain, where he settled in a newly founded monastery in the city of Burgos in 1079, of which he also became abbot. He may have made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela ; then he founded a pilgrims' hospital (Hospital de San Juan Evangelista) and accompanied Alfonso VI. on his campaign to recapture ( reconquista ) Toledo in 1085. He died in 1097.
Adoration
Lesmes is worshiped almost exclusively in the city of Burgos and its surroundings. His neo-baroque marble tomb is in the church of San Lesmes in the center of Burgos. Otherwise only very few churches have his patronage .
presentation
Medieval representations of Lesmes are unknown; the few modern portraits mostly show him as a monk or as an abbot.
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| SURNAME | Lesmes of Burgos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adelhem; Adelelmus; Elesme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saint of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1035 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loudun |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1097 |
| Place of death | Burgos |