Ludolph of Saxony
14th-century German theologian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Ludolphus" redirects here. For other uses, see Ludolph.
Ludolph of Saxony (c. 1295 ā 1378), also known as Ludolphus de Saxonia and Ludolph the Carthusian, was a German Roman Catholic theologian of the fourteenth century.
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His principal work, first printed in the 1470s, was the Vita Christi (Life of Christ).[1] It had significant influence on the development of techniques for Christian meditation by introducing the concept of immersing and projecting oneself into a Biblical scene about the life of Jesus which became popular among the Devotio Moderna community, and later influenced Ignatius of Loyola.[2]