Royal Sainthood Revisited. New Dimensions of the Cult of Saint Ladislas (14th-15th centuries)
Gruia, Ana Maria
Studia Patzinaka, 2, 2006
Abstract: Among the ruins of a fifteenth century town house from Baia, in Moldavia, the archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a gothic tile stove. Some of the tiles depicted fragments from the legend of Saint Ladislas, namely a particular scene in which the holy king is following the Cuman warrior. Ladislas, king of Hungary (1077-1095), canonized in 1192 at the initiative of King Béla III, was often presented as a martyr in the first hagiographic texts referring to him, while later on the emphasis shifted to those elements of the vita that reflected the values of chivalric culture.
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Tags: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Hungary, Moldavia
