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Saint
Lufthildis
A saint of the West, honored by the undivided Church.
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- Era
- 10th century
Life
Lufthildis (also Liuthildis of Bonn) is a local saint of the Rhineland, honored above all in the village of Lüftelberg, today in the town of Meckenheim, which bears her name. There a pilgrimage is made to her grave in the Romanesque church of Saint Peter, which has Lufthildis as a second patron. Her gravestone is a plain slab of limestone from the Eifel aqueduct.
No sure dates of her life are known. She is said to have lived in the time of Charlemagne. In 1623 her veneration was revived by the archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand of Wittelsbach.
In her life and image she recalls Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia. She is shown with a spindle as her attribute and is said to heal ear diseases and drive away evil spirits.
She is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known, and the story is uncertain.