Lukan von Säben

Lukan kneels in front of Pope Celestine I and receives his blessing. In the background his coat hangs to dry on the sunbeam (copperplate engraving, 1714).

Lukan von Säben ( Latin Saint Lucanus , Italian San Lucano or San Lugano ; † July 20 ) is a Roman Catholic saint from the 5th century .

He is referred to as the Bishop of Säben ( Sabiona ) or incorrectly also as the Bishop of Brixen (today part of the diocese of Bozen-Brixen in South Tyrol ).

Legend

Outside of the narrower area of ​​his former work, Lukan is hardly known. Much of what is said about him can be attributed to legend .

Thereafter Lukan was bishop of Säben (above Klausen ) in the first half of the 5th century ; however, in an apocryphal papal document from 424, he is erroneously referred to as "Lucanus episcopus Brixinensis" (Bishop of Brixen), although Brixen had only become a bishopric instead of Säben since the late 10th century.

According to this document, Lukan allowed milk, butter and cheese to be consumed in his diocese during a famine in the forty days of Lent . His opponents sued him for this in 424 before Pope Celestine I , who ordered him to Rome . Despite his old age, Lukan set off, accompanied by a servant. While resting in the forest, he let his horse graze freely and a large bear tore the horse. When Lukan arrived, he ordered the bear to replace the horse in the name of God and be his mount. Lukan put on him a saddle and bridle, and the bear carried him as far as Rome.

At a stopover in Spoleto , they returned with a guest host one, the Lukan said that his wife at the dropsy seriously ill and was bedridden. Lukan allowed himself to be led to her, knelt by the sick person's bed and prayed to God so that the woman would get well again.

Lukan moved on with his servant, and since he had no present for the Pope, he ordered a flock of partridges to fly to Rome as a present. When he went before the Pope in Rome, he was about to take off his rain-soaked coat, but there was nothing nearby to hang it on. Lukan threw his coat on a ray of sunshine that fell diagonally through the window, and the ray of sunshine carried the coat like a nail or a pole. When the Pope saw that Lukan had God's grace, he absolved him of all guilt and let him return home blessed and richly presented.

Lukan was driven from Säben by his opponents and fled to the valley of Agordo in what is now the Italian province of Belluno . There he was fed by a woman named Avatia (who was also venerated as a saint in the church of the valley). Famous for many miracles , he passed away on July 20th . His head was kept in Agordo, his body was buried in a marble coffin in Belluno Cathedral .

At the beginning of the 16th century, Lukan's biography was compiled by the public notary in Belluno, Peter Paul von Diolaitis, without giving any source.

Adoration

Carl Pfaundlert reported in his book Heiliger Tyroler-Ehrenglanz or Life Stories of Saints, Blessed, Godly, Pious and Excellent Tyrols , published in 1843, on the veneration of Lucan as follows:

In Bressanone, little or nothing was known about Lukan until the beginning of the 17th century . The old registers of the bishops and other liturgical books in the region do not name him.

It was only after 1621 , and after Bishop Hieronymus Otto Agricola had the Brixen Breviary from 1604 republished, that Lukan was counted among the patrons of Brixen Monastery and officially venerated there. He had previously been venerated as Bishop of Säben in the Church of Belluno for a long time.

His veneration increased after the bishop of Brixen Anton von Crosini sent the canon Johann Andreas von Rossi to Belluno in 1658 to get some relics from the grave for Bressanone. With the approval of the Doge and the High Council of Venice and the governor and councilors of Belluno, Rossi received a shoulder blade and a rib from Lukan. On October 3, 1658, von Rossi returned to Brixen with these relics, which were initially stored in the Capuchin Church of Brixen. On the following Sunday , October 6th , the relics were solemnly buried in Brixen Cathedral . Only for the city of Bressanone, not for the diocese , the day of remembrance was set for July 20th. Every year on this day the relics were publicly venerated, sometimes in solemn processions with the relics of other collegiate saints.

In 1814 , Lukan's relics were given new containers in the form of the containers of the diocese cartridges Ingenuin , Albuin and Hartmann .

Today his bones rest in the cathedral of the city of Belluno and partly also in Bressanone .

Patronage

Parish church St. Lukan in San Lugano (zu Truden ) in South Tyrol

Lukan is the patron saint against dropsy .

The place San Lugano (zu Truden ) in South Tyrol is named after him; the parish church there is called St. Lukan. In the diocese of Belluno-Feltre , too , at least two churches are dedicated to Saint Lucan ( San Lucano or San Lugano ).

The San Lugano saddle , the alpine pass from the Adige Valley to the Fiemme Valley and a valley near Agordo also bear his name. Lukan is said to have stayed here on and after his escape.

iconography

The saint is depicted with a miter and a raincoat, which he hangs on a sunbeam to dry.

In addition, Lukan is shown riding the bear that had previously torn his horse. The bear as a mount can also be found in the legends of Saints Romedius and Korbinian ( Korbinian bear ), whose areas of activity are geographically very close.

Remembrance day

• July 20th and July 27th

Others

He is not identical to the Catholic saint of the same name, St. Lucanus , Lukan (also Lucian, Lucain, Lucien) from Loigny in Beauce (France) . This is also said to have lived in the 5th century and died as a martyr by beheading ( name day : October 30th ). Its relics are venerated in Paris ( Notre-Dame Cathedral ).

The name of the well-known place Lugano in Ticino is not derived from the personal name of this saint.

swell

• Acta Sanctorum July 20th vol. 5 (ed. J. Bollandus / JB Carnandet), p. 70.
• Philipp Ferrarius: Directory of the saints of Italy (Resch Annal. Sab. I. Pag. 269) . ( google.de ).
• Holy Tyrolean glory or life stories of saints, blessed, godly, pious and distinguished Tyroleans (etc.) . tape 1 . Carl Pfaundlert, 1843, p. 106 ff . ( google.de - after Philipp Ferrarius and others).

See also

• Lukan
• Lucanus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiliger Tyroler Ehrenglanz or life stories of saints, blessed, godly, pious and distinguished Tyroleans (etc.) . tape 1 . Carl Pfaundlert, 1843, p. 109 ( google.de - after Philipp Ferrari).
2. ^ Relevant edition from Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 3–4, No. 3 .
3. ↑ Helene Raff: St. Lucanus . In: Tyrolean Legends . Innsbruck 1924, p. 76 ff . ( say.at ).
4. ↑ Holy Tyroler Ehrenglanz or life stories of saints, blessed, godly, pious and distinguished Tyroleans . tape 1 . Carl Pfaundlert, 1843, p. 110 ff .
5. ↑ Der Schlern : Monthly magazine for South Tyrolean regional studies . tape 62 . Vogelweider, 1988, p. 89 ( google.de ).
6. ↑ Saints and Blessed - Site in Italian
7. ↑ Saint Lexicon
8. ↑ Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna: Mittheilungen der Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna . Ed .: Karl Czoernig, Freiherr von. KK Hof- und Staats-Druckerei, 1899 ( google.de ).
9. ^ Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol AZ . tape 4 (OZ). Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1995.
10. ^ Heinrich Detzel: Christian Iconography: A Handbook for Understanding Christian Art . tape 2 . Herder, 1896, p. 491 ( google.de ).
11. ^ Austrian official calendar 2004/2005, p. 1768
12. ↑ Liborius.de (Liboriusverlag GmbH and Co. KG): The Saints from A to Z. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 25, 2013 (source: Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht (2002): The big name day calendar. 3850 names and 1680 biographies of the namesake, Herder Verlag, Freiburg). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
13. ↑ Amable Bonnefons: Kurtze, but extraordinary lives of God's dear saints [etc.] volume 4 . Strötter, Gastel and Ilger, 1735, p. 451 ff . ( google.de ).
14. ↑ Alban Butler: Lives of Fathers and Martyrs and Other Excellent Saints . tape 15 . Simon Müller'schen Buchhandlung, Mainz 1825 ( google.de ).
15. ^ Heinrich Detzel: Christian Iconography: A Handbook for Understanding Christian Art . tape 2 . Herder, 1896, p. 491 ( google.de ).
16. ^ François Huot: Les manuscrits liturgiques du canton de Genève (Part 5 of Iter Helveticum) (=  Volume 19 of Spicilegii Friburgensis subsidia ). Saint-Paul, 1990, ISBN 2-8271-0443-1 , ISSN  0584-8814 , p. 79 ( google.de ).