Ivo Hélory

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Roger van der Weyden : St. Ivo

The holy Ivo of Kermartin of Kermartin ( . Fr. Yves de Hélory Kermartin , bret. Erwan Helouri a Gervarzhin ) (* to 17th October 1253 in Minihy-Tréguier bret (. Ar Vinic'hi ), Brittany ; † 19th May 1303 in Louannec ) was a Breton priest and official of the Diocese of Tréguier .

Life

Ivo came from a noble Breton family. He studied law in Paris and canon law in Orléans . In 1285 he became pastor of Trédrez , Côtes-d'Armor , in 1293 pastor of Louannec, where he also died.

In 1284 the Bishop of Tréguier appointed him his official. He exercised this ecclesiastical judicial office, which at that time had a profound effect on civil life, with courage and incorruptibility and acquired the reputation of an “advocate for the poor”.

Adoration

Grave monument of St. Ivo in the Cathedral of Treguier

Ivo was in 1347 by Pope Clement VI. canonized . He is the only French saint who is called "Monsieur". He is also considered the national saint of Brittany today . His patronage day , May 19, is celebrated as the Breton national holiday Gouel Erwan (French: Fête de la Saint-Yves ).

St. Ivo is considered the patron saint of lawyers in many European countries . In Germany, the saint was and is highly respected, especially at the University of Trier . From 1473 to 1798 the dean of the law faculty was elected on May 19 . The seal of the old law faculty, continued in today's Trier Law Faculty, shows St. Ivo as a scholar at the book desk with the subheading “S. Ivo ”. Since 2016, St. Ivo has been the patron saint of data protectionists, at least informally. The saint adorns the seal of the Catholic Data Protection Center in Dortmund.

Rogier van der Weyden painted St. Ivo around 1450. His painting can be seen in the National Gallery in London.

The stained glass window Life of Saint Ivo Hélory in Moncontour, Brittany region, was created in 1537. Ivo's exemplary incorruptibility is reflected in stained glass windows created around 1550 such as the Judgment of Ivo Hélory (Les Iffs) or the Judgment of Ivo Hélory (Plonévez-du-Faou) .

The relics of St. Ivo are kept in the Cathedral of Tréguier together with those of St. Tugdual in a gilded shrine donated by the Parisian Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen in the 19th century.

Patronage

Churches and chapels:

In Salzburg it is allegorically compiled for jurisprudence with Thomas von Aquin (theology), Lukas Evangelist (medicine) and Katharina von Alexandrien (philosophy).

See also

literature

  • Michael Streck / Annette Rieck: St. Ivo 1247–1303 patron saint of judges and lawyers , Verlag Otto Schmidt (Cologne) 2007. ISBN 3-504-06132-4 .
  • Werner Beaumont: Pilgrimage to St. Yves , Anwaltsblatt 2003, p. 448.
  • Annette Rieck: Saint Ivo von Hélory (1247–1303), advocatus pauperum and patron of lawyers , Verlag Peter Lang (Frankfurt / M.) 1998.
  • Marco Sustmann: Ivo and the stolen ladder. Eulogy in honor of a saint , Anwaltsblatt 1995, pp. 271f.
  • Michael Tilly:  Ivo (Yves) Hélory de Kermartin, St. Yves de Bretones, I. Trecorensis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1393-1394.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Werner Beaumont: Ivo, the patron saint of lawyers , Anwaltsblatt 1985, p. 223f.
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister : St. Ivo and his admiration at the German law faculties . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History: German Department 92 (1975), pp. 60–88
  • Joseph Müller: Sankt Ivo, patron saint of lawyers . In: Yearbook for Art and Poetry 1843, pp. 271–273 ( Google Books ), poem.

Web links

Commons : Ivo Hélory  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b St. Ives , Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Sermon for the Fête de la Saint Yves ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. by Bishop Jean-Louis Papin 2012 (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / paroissenotredamedebonnenouvelle.cef.fr
personal data
SURNAME Hélory, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erwan Helouri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Breton legal scholar, priest and official; Saint
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1253
PLACE OF BIRTH Minihy-Tréguier , Brittany
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1303
Place of death Louannec