Ludan (saint)

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Ludan (* in the 12th century ; † February 12, 1202 near Hipsheim ) is a saint.

Life

Ludan was probably from Scotland . He died on his way home from a pilgrimage to Rome and perhaps also to the Holy Land near the Alsatian town of Hipsheim. Ludan or Ludanus is nicknamed the Confessor . That he was a bishop during his lifetime is a theory that can be traced back to an ambiguous marginal note in a martyrology. Ludan is represented as a pilgrim with appropriate equipment.

His grave is said to have become a pilgrimage destination from around 1300 and was desecrated by Sweden during the Thirty Years' War in 1632 . Since then, the body of St. Ludan has not been in it.

Saint-Ludan near Hipsheim

Adoration

Ludan's tomb in the Scheerkirche near Hipsheim from 1492 may have been made by Conrat Seyfer ; According to Jan Marco Sawilla, it is the first tomb that was built for the saint. A veneration of the saint and the naming of the Scheerkirche as St. Ludan can only be proven for the end of the 16th century. According to Sawilla , the feast of Sancti Ludani Confessoris , celebrated on February 12, is liturgically documented for the first time in the Proprium of the Convent of the Repentant of St. Magdalena in Strasbourg from 1627. The day of Ludan's death was clearly set as a binding festival in the diocese of Strasbourg , but apparently first in the Ordo divini Officii recitandi Diocesi Argentinensi of 1729 and then again in the Rituale Argentinense of 1742. In 1846 the festival was moved to February 16. Sawilla comes to the conclusion: “It was probably an older and locally significant cult, which did not take its decisive upturn until the modern age, however, only in the age of the Enlightenment, in this case promoted by the development and expansion of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 1723. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This further goal is mentioned on www.heiligenlexikon.de .
  2. ↑ a b Jan. Marco Sawilla, Antiquarianism, hagiography and history in the 17th century , Max Niemeyer 2009, ISBN 978-3484366312 f, p.137., N. 111
  3. ↑ a b Ludan on www.heilige.de
  4. ^ Church of St. Ludan renovated , in: Der Westen , Issue 3/4, Volume 59, 2012, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Ludan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pilgrims and saints
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1202
Place of death at Hipsheim