medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, September 21, 2009, at 8:19 am, I wrote:
> 4) Landelin of Ettenheim (d. 7th cent.?).
> As L.'s _dies natalis_ falls on the same day as a translation feast
> for St. Landelin of Lobbes, it has seemed probable to some that he is
> in origin the latter saint, outfitted with new identity in the central
> Middle Ages. Late medieval expanded versions of Usuard from Haguenau
> and Köln record our L. under today. In the archdiocese of Freiburg im
> Breisgau he is now celebrated on 22. September. Here's a view of L.'s
> aforementioned reliquary bust of 1506:
> http://tinyurl.com/c25r3q
> The bust is displayed at the annual festivities at the pilgrimage
> church of St. Landolin in Ettenheimmünster (an eighteenth-century
> rebuilding of a medieval predecessor):
Er, the spelling of L.'s name in the titulature of the church is Landelin. The form Landolin, a common variant probably formed by analogy with Fridolin (St. Fridolin is a fellow saint of the upper Rhine with a likewise legendary Irish origin), is used by the archdiocese in the titulature of a boarding school also located in Ettenheim. The church (officially the Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche St. Landelin) is from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The pilgrimage to L.'s grave and to one or more nearby holy springs L. is said to have called forth is perhaps first attested from 1183, when pilgrims from Straßburg/Strasbourg are said to have been welcomed at the monastery. Herewith two views of the Landelinsbrunnen (Landelin's Well) fed by the Landelinsquelle (Landelin's Spring) adjacent to L.'s church, in its modern state with four spouts for convenience in collecting the reputedly eye- and head-healing waters:
http://tinyurl.com/lc4a4c
http://www.ettenheim.de/kloster/Kirche/Landelinsbrunnen.gif
Since that wasn't very medieval, herewith an illustrated, German-language page on the much rebuilt but originally twelfth-century Kirche St. Peter und Paul in Wittelbach (an _Ortsteil_ of Seelbach [Lkr. Ortenaukreis] in Baden-Württemberg), a dependency of the abbey at Ettenheimmünster from 1363 to 1803:
http://tinyurl.com/lw4kuk
And, for fun, a brief, not altogether serious re-telling of L.'s legend on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxjIFak8gKE
Best again,
John Dillon
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