June 10 - Landry was an officer in the Royal Chancery under Clovis II. Around 650, he was Bishop of Paris, replacing Audobertus. He is the fifth Saint Pastor of the capital, after Saints Denis, Marcel, Germain and Céran.
It is said that he never ceased to help the most destitute. During the famine of 651, he sold all his personal and movable goods, even liturgical objects, to buy some bread and redistribute it.
Because illnesses caused many deaths and often turned into epidemics, he had the idea of grouping together all the sick to better care for them and not to contaminate the rest of the population. This is how the Saint-Christophe hospital was created, next to Notre-Dame de Paris, which became the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. He dissociated the Bishop's palace and the Hôtel-Dieu, as the bishopric could no longer house and treat according to tradition all those who came to strike there. He then created a building dedicated to the reception of the sick and the poor on the very site of that of Erchinoald, mayor of the palace. Before him, Paris only had the Matriculae, a kind of asylums supported by the life alms of the rich, to relieve the sick. Saint Landry was helped by a community of nuns, in charge of this large number of sick people, but also by noble ladies who took prideAfter his death on June 10, 656, many miracles, due to his invocation and the touching of his shroud and one of his teeth came to attest to his holiness. People went on pilgrimage to his collegiate church in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois where he rested and where his shroud was displayed. His statue can be seen on the porch of the church. He carries a book in his left hand, a sign of his science, and his right hand over his heart, a sign of his love for the poor. in serving and presenting to the poor with their own hands the dishes and remedies that the charity of the holy girls had prepared for them.
In 653, at the Council of Clichy, Saint Landry and twenty-three other bishops signed the charter of foundation, granted by King Clovis II, for the newly created abbey of Saint-Denis, a monastery of the Benedictine Order, which was exempted from episcopal jurisdiction so that the monks could live more quietly in greater separation and oblivion from the world. The charter was made on Egyptian paper and has been preserved. (Mabill. Diplomatica)
Balthilde, wife of Clovis II and later Regent, founded new and supported the reform of old monasteries, including Saint-Denis, with new principles and decrees, including the independence granted to the local bishop. The new privilege of Saint-Denis thus assured the bishop of Paris that he no longer had to pay for his liturgical functions, and that he could raise and use monastic funds when he needed them; Saint Landry agreed, saying, "the king's request is for us like a command, and it is therefore impossible to resist. »
Popular tradition has it that it was Saint Landry who built the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. This church was the main parish of the Kings of France in the 7th century.
After his death on June 10, 656, many miracles, due to his invocation and the touching of his shroud and one of his teeth came to attest to his holiness. People went on pilgrimage to his collegiate church in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois where he rested and where his shroud was displayed. His statue can be seen on the porch of the church. He carries a book in his left hand, a sign of his science, and his right hand over his heart, a sign of his love for the poor.
