Saint Landry of Paris | |
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 Statue of St. Landry in Église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Paris | |
| Died | c. 661 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 10 June |
SaintLandry orLandericus of Paris (d. c. 661) was aBishop of Paris and is canonized as asaint by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Landry built a hospital dedicated to St. Christopher, which later became theHôtel-Dieu de Paris. His feast day is 10 June.
Landry was chief clerk of the Royal Chancery. In 650, he succeeded Audobertus as Bishop of Paris.[1] During the famine of 650-51, Bishop Landry sold all of his personal possessions, as well as some of the furniture and sacred vessels of the church, to feed the poor.[2]
He is credited with building the first majorhospital in the city, dedicating it toSaint Christopher, (now the Hôtel-Dieu).[3]
In 653, Landry, with 23 other bishops, subscribed to the charterClovis II gave toSaint-Denis Abbey, exempting it from episcopal jurisdiction. It is believed that he built the original church ofSaint-Germain l'Auxerrois, which became the parish church of the kings of France.[3]
He died in 661.[3]
He was buried at the Church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, where there is a chapel named after him and most of hisrelics are kept, except for two bones that were given to the parish of Saint-Landry in 1408, which was originally a chapel near the saint’s house in which he was accustomed to pray. He is honored with an office in the new Paris Breviary.[1]
His feast day is 10 June.[1]
Miracles were recorded of him. One of them reads:
We have seen and known that a man which men call Raoul Gracard was smitten suddenly, and had the head much great and swollen, and was so red in the face of him that all folk that saw him deemed and held him for aleper. Which man with great haste came to the presence of Saint Landry, and there he confessed him much devoutly, receiving much benignly his penance, and after he came to thesudary of the saint and with great devotion kissed it, and when he had done his offering and vow with much great faith and hope he returned, andunnethe [hardly] he was come to his house when he became as whole as ever he was. Be therefore the name of God praised, who for his good friend Saint Landry he healed so promptly the foresaid patient.
— Jacobus de Voragine,The Golden Legend[4]
St. Landry Catholic Church, inOpelousas, Louisiana is dedicated to Landry of Paris.[5] A statue of Saint Landry stands behind the altar, and a stained glass window with his image at the southwest corner of the church.[6] Thecivil parish of St. Landry, located in south Louisiana and of which Opelousas is the seat, is named after the church.
Port St-Landry was Paris' first dock.[7]
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