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Lupus of Sens (or Saint Loup de Sens) (born c. 573; died c. 623)
was the nineteenth
bishop of Sens
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.
Life
He was the son of Betton, Count of Tonnerre, "
Blessed Betto," a member of the
royal house
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of the
Kingdom of Burgundy
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.
He distinguished himself by his tact and firmness in dealing with the rival Merovingian Princes of his time.
Church in Saint-Loup-de-Naud
The
Romanesque church dedicated to Saint Loup at
Naud Naud may refer to:
Persons
* Albert Naud, French actor appearing in ''Life Love Death'' (1968) and ''Mourir d'aimer'' (1971)
* Daniel Naud (born 1962), Canadian ice hockey player
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, 8 km from
Provins
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in Champagne in the east of France is distinguished by the outstanding sculptures in the porch of its great doorway, with an ambitious
iconographic program in which Saint Loup mediates entry into the mystery of the
Trinity
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. About 980, Sevinus,
archbishop of Sens
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, made a gift to the
Benedictine community of the
abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif
The Abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif (french: Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Rule of St Benedict, Benedictine monastery just outside the walls of Sens, France, in the Archdiocese of Sens.
History
The first abbot of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif, Saint ...
at Sens of four altars ''in villa que dicitus Naudus, in honore sancti lupi consecratum''—"in the demesne that is called Naud, consecrated in honor of Saint Loup"—betokening the presence of a shrine already on this site, a priory under the direction of the abbot of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif. Other documents mention
Saint-Loup-de-Naud among the possessions of the abbey at Sens, seat of an archbishop with close political ties to the French Crown, who had Paris within his diocese. Thus, though it lay so close to Provins, a seat of the
counts of Champagne
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Count Theobald I ...
and the abbey church was completed by Henri le Libéral, comte de Champagne, the priory at Saint-Loup-de-Naud looked to Sens for its patronage: a visit from the abbot is documented in 1120. In 1160/61 Hugues de Toucy, Archbishop of Sens, presented to the priory the relic of Saint Loup, brought from the abbey of Sainte-Colombe, to that community's dismay; the sculpted ''portail'' with an iconography comparable to the royal portal at
Chartres
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was doubtless undertaken shortly thereafter, when
pilgrimage
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s brought wealth to the community.
The priory was laid waste by the English in 1432, during the
Hundred Years' War
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and again by the
Huguenots
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in 1567, during the
French Wars of Religion
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.
Other saints Lupus/Loup
Numerous communes of France are named Saint-Loup;
[For a full list of French places with this name, see Saint-Loup. There is also a Saint-Loup in ]Namur
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Namu ...
, Belgium, and another in Switzerland. they commemorate several venerable early saints with the Latinized Germanic name of ''Lupus'' ("wolf"): besides Saint Loup de Sens, venerated in
Champagne
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,
Île-de-France
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and
Picardy
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there are
Saint Loup de Troyes, Saint Loup de
Bayeux
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Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...
, one of the early Bishops of Bayeux; and—more locally venerated—Saint Loup de
Limoges
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, Saint Loup de
Soissons
Soissons () is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France. Located on the river Aisne, about northeast of Paris, it is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital ...
, and Saint Loup de
Châlons-en-Champagne
Châlons-en-Champagne () is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the department of Marne, despite being only a quarter the size of the city of Reims.
Formerly called Châlons-sur-Marne, the city was officially renam ...
. A number of the communes called Saint-Loup in the west of France are not easily connected with a specific Saint Loup. However, the account of his life in da Voragine's 'Golden Legend' refers to his exile in the northwest, from which one or more of the sites named for him in Bretagne might have claimed a connection.
See also
References
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External links
"Saint loup de Naud"the Romanesque church.
A website devoted to all the Saints Loup.
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623 deaths
7th-century Burgundian bishops
7th-century Frankish saints
Bishops of Sens
Year of birth unknown