Reliquary - S. LUDGARDIS and S.JULIANA of CORNILLON

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Old and rare reliquary (19 th century ) with relics of two Saints: St. LUDGARDIS (1182-1246) Also known as S. Lutgard; Lutgarde of the Sacred Heart; Lutgarde of Tongres; Lutgarde; Lutgardis of Aywieres; Luthgard A pretty girl with a fondness for clothes and no apparent religious vocation, Lutgardis was sent to the Black Benedictine convent near Saint Trond at age 12 because her dowry had been lost in a failed business venture, and t was thus little chance for a life as a normal, married lay woman. In her late teens she received a vision of Christ showing her his wounds, and in 1194 at age 20 she became a Benedictine nun with a true vocation. She had visions of Christ while in prayer, experienced ecstacies, levitated, and dripped blood from forehead and hair when enraptured in the Passion. Chosen as prioress of her community in 1205, she repeatedly refused to be abbess. The Benedictine order was not strict enough for Lutgardis, and on the advice of her friend Saint Christina the Astonishing, in 1208 she joined the Cistercians at Aywieres (near Brussels in modern Belgium) w she lived for her remaining 30 years. Displayed the gifts of healing, prophecy, spiritual wisdom, and was an inspired teacher on the Gospels. Blind for the last eleven years of her life, she treated the affliction as a gift - it reduced the distraction of the outside read more

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