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Saint Emma of Lesum
Saint Emma of Lesum
	Statue of Saint Emma of Lesum
Born	10th century; Duchy of Saxony
Died	3 December 1038; Lesum, now Bremen-Burglesum
Venerated in	Roman Catholicism
Major shrine	Werden Abbey; Bremen Cathedral
Feast	19 April or 3 December

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Emma of Lesum or Emma of Stiepel (also known as Hemma and Imma) (c. 975-980 – 3 December 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works; she is also the first female inhabitant of Bremen to be known by name.

Notes

Sources

Schwarzwälder, Herbert, 2003: Das Große Bremen-Lexikon. Edition Temmen. ISBN 3-86108-693-X

External links

Ekkart Sauser (1999). "Emma of Lesum". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 16. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 453–454. ISBN 3-88309-079-4.
(in German) Heiligenlexikon
(in German) Kirchensite.de
(in German) Bremen Town Park

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 |death_date=3 December 1038
 |feast_day=19 April or 3 December
 |venerated_in=[[Roman Catholicism]]
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-|caption=Saint Emma of Lesum (stained glass window in St. John's Church, Schnoor)
+|caption=Statue of Saint Emma of Lesum
 |birth_place=[[Duchy of Saxony]]
 |death_place=Lesum, now [[Bremen]]-Burglesum
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-'''Emma of Lesum''' or '''Emma of Stiepel''' (also known as '''Hemma''' and '''Imma''') (ca. 975-980 &ndash; 3 December 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works; she is also the first female inhabitant of Bremen to be known by name.
+'''Emma of Lesum''' or '''Emma of Stiepel''' (also known as '''Hemma''' and '''Imma''') (c. 975-980 &ndash; 3 December 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works; she is also the first female inhabitant of [[Bremen]] to be known by name.
-==Life==
-Emma was born into the [[Duchy of Saxony|Saxon]] noble family of the [[Immedinger]], descendants of [[Widukind]]. She was the daughter of Count Immed (or Imad) from the [[Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580)|diocese of Utrecht]] and also, according to [[Adam of Bremen]], the sister of [[Meinwerk, Bishop of Paderborn]]. She married Liudger, a son of the Saxon duke [[Hermann Billung]] and brother of [[Bernard I, Duke of Saxony]]. [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Otto III]] made the couple a present in 1001 of the ''Pfalz'' or ''palatium'' in [[Stiepel]] (now [[Bochum]]-Stiepel), where in 1008 Emma had a church built dedicated to the [[Virgin Mary]], which later became a popular place of pilgrimage. The only child of the marriage was Imad, consecrated Bishop of Paderborn in 1051.
-After the early death of her husband by going to Russia and getting a rare sickness.<ref>It is sometimes stated that until the death of her husband she had a very sudden and violent temper that occasionally led her to commit physical violence</ref> in 1011, Emma withdrew to the estate of Lesum (now [[Bremen]]-Burglesum) and with her fortune generously supported [[Bremen Cathedral]], where [[Unwan]], [[Archbishop of Bremen]], was another of her relatives, and granted the [[cathedral chapter]] her property at Stiepel with its church. She was portrayed as a great benefactress of the church, and indeed founded a number of churches in the Bremen area, although her greatest care was for the poor.
-Emma was later venerated as a saint, although there is no evidence that she was formally ever either beatified or canonised. She was buried in Bremen Cathedral, where her tomb was still to be seen in the 16th century. Her tomb is one of the biggest in the cemetery.
-There is a [[stained glass window]] of her in the [[Roman Catholic]] church of St. John's at [[Schnoor]] in Bremen.
-==Cult==
-Her feast day is 3 December or 17 April, although some sources name 19 April instead. When the tomb was opened, her body had crumbled to dust except for her right hand (the hand that dispensed gifts). That relic was placed in the abbey of [[Ludger|Saint Ludger]] at [[Werden Abbey|Werden]].
-==Legend of the meadow==
-[[Image:RolandBremen03.jpg|thumb|"Cripple" at the feet of the [[Bremen Roland|Roland statue in Bremen]]]]
-There is a well-known Bremen legend concerning her gift of meadow to the town in 1032. When a delegation of the townspeople approached her with a request for more meadowland, Emma promised them as much meadow as a man could run round in an hour. Her brother-in-law Bernard or Benno, duke of Saxony, with an appraising eye on his inheritance, suggested mockingly that she might as well give them as much land as a man could run round in a day. Emma agreed to this, but Bernard asked to choose the man who was to do the running, and when Emma agreed to that too, picked out a legless cripple past whom they had just walked. This man proved however to have extraordinary strength and endurance and by the end of the day had succeeded in making his way round a very substantial area, bigger even than the present Bremen town meadow.
-This story has been current in various forms since at least the 18th century, although there is no documentary evidence for it, and gives a whole new possible meaning to the inclusion of the figure of the "cripple" at the feet of the statue of [[Bremen Roland]].
-==Naming==
-In Bremen the "Emmasee" (Lake Emma) and a café in the main park are named after Emma, besides streets in the districts of [[Bremen-Burglesum]] and [[Bremen-Schwachhausen]].<!--There is also a monument to her historic "Ausritt".-->
-In [[Stiepel|Bochum-Stiepel]] there is a Gräfin-Imma-Strasse (''Countess Emma Street''), a Countess Emma church (''Gräfin-Imma-Kirche''), as well as a primary school (''Gräfin-Imma-Grundschule'') and a kindergarten (''Gräfin-Imma-Kindergarten''), named after her.
-:''This article is largely translated from that on the German Wikipedia''
 ==See also==
 *[[List of Catholic saints]]
+*[[Portal:Catholic Church/Patron Archive/April 19|Saint Emma of Lesum, patron saint archive]]
 ==Notes==
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 ==Sources==
+*Schwarzwälder, Herbert, 2003: ''[[Das Große Bremen-Lexikon]]''. Edition Temmen. {{ISBN|3-86108-693-X}}
-* Schwarzwälder, Herbert, 2003: ''Das Große Bremen-Lexikon''. Edition Temmen. {{ISBN|3-86108-693-X}}
 ==External links==
 * <!--[http://www.catholic-forum.com/Saints/sainte1i.htm Saint Emma] on the Catholic Forum (link dead)]-->
 * {{BBKL|e/emma_v_l|band=16|autor= Ekkart Sauser|spalten=453-454}}
-* {{de icon}} [http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/start.html?BiographienE/Emma_von_Lesum.htm Heiligenlexikon]
+* {{in lang|de}} [http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/start.html?BiographienE/Emma_von_Lesum.htm Heiligenlexikon]
-* {{de icon}} [http://www.kirchensite.de/index.php?myELEMENT=79389 Kirchensite.de]
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-* {{de icon}} [http://www2.bremen.de/info/history/Roland/rolandbesonderheit.html Bremen Roland]
+* {{in lang|de}} [http://www.buergerpark.de/historie/entstehung/emma Bremen Town Park]
-* {{de icon}} [http://www.buergerpark.de/historie/entstehung/emma Bremen Town Park]
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