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Sculptures sur l'Église Sainte-Ségolène

Sculptures at the Church of Saint Sigolena

Auguste Dujardin
1898

Metz / Sculptures sur l'Église Sainte-Ségolène

Description

Medieval church with a neo-gothic façade, built 1896-98 after designs of the architect Conrad Wahn with sculptures by Dujardin.

Central portal

Tympanum

Metz - Sculptures sur l'Église Sainte-Ségolène
Mort et gloire de Ségolène / Death and glory of Sigolena
Sigolena of Albi (fl. 7th. c.) was a French deaconess and saint from Albi. Her feast day is July 24 (Wikipedia)

Jamb Statues Six Austrasian saints.

Ste. Waldrée / St. Waldrada of Lotharingia (7th century), abbess of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains at Metz, mistress of king Lothair II (Wikipedia).
St. Trond / St. Trudo (d. c. 698), son of Blessed Adela of the family of the dukes of Austrasia, Apostle of Hesbaye (Wikipedia).
St. Arnoul / St. Arnulf of Metz (c. 582-640), bishop of Metz, 613-628 (Wikipedia).

St. Sigisbert / St. Sigebert III (c. 630-656), Merovingian king of Austrasia (Wikipedia).
St. Livier de Marsal / St. Livarius (5th century), martyr, born in the Metz region (Wikipedia).
Ste. Hildegarde de Vintzgau / St. Hildegard of the Vinzgau (758 - Thionville 783), third wife of Charlemagne (Wikipedia).

Reliefs To the left and right of the central portal are two sets of three reliefs showing the life of Saint Sigolena.

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Martyrdom of St. Livarius
Life of St. Sigolena

Angels

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Left portal

Metz - Sculptures sur l'Église Sainte-Ségolène
Martyre de Ferréol et Ferjeux / Martyrdom of the twin saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio
The scene shows the bishop Saint Ferreolus getting his tongue wrenched with Saint Ferrutio as deacon behind him. In the top is depicted that the souls of the twin saints are carried to heaven by two angels (Wikipedia)

Right portal

Metz - Sculptures sur l'Église Sainte-Ségolène
The tympanum of the Holy Cross. The scene represents the Authentication of the True Cross. In Jerusalem, St. Helena, after having found the three crosses of Golgotha, succeeds in revealing the authenticity of the cross of Christ by the miracle of the resurrection of a dead person at its touch.

Façade

Buttresses
Statues of the four evangelists. They do not show the usual attributes of the Four Evangelists and only have a book in their hand. Identification was only possible for Saint John the Evangelist (2) with a chalice and the only beardless evangelist.

Gable

St. Pierre / St. Peter (possibly died AD 67), apostle, first pope; patron saint of locksmiths and confessors. Usually holding the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven in his hand (Wikipedia)

Christ

St. Paul the Apostle, (c. 5 - c. 67 ), persecuted the early followers of Jesus before switching sides and seeking to join them. He was instrumental in creating the Christian Church. He is the protector of tent-makers, theologians and the ecclesiastical press and is depicted with a sword. (Wikipedia).

Sculptor

Auguste Dujardin (Paris 1847 - Essey-lès-Nancy 1925), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Christiane Pignon-Feller, Le fabuleux destin de Sainte-Ségolène, Académie nationale de Metz 2011 (PDF on-line).
Wikipedia, Église Sainte-Ségolène.
Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, , Église Sainte-Ségolène à Metz.
Petit Patrimoine, search form.
Le Pays natal de JLJ: La Lorraine, Metz (Sainte-Ségolène).

Locatie (N 49°7'17" - E 6°10'48") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frlo181; Photograph: 27 May 2019
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Mort et gloire de Ségolène / Death and glory of Sigolena Sigolena of Albi (fl. 7th. c.) was a French deaconess and saint from Albi. Her feast day is July 24 (Wikipedia)


Martyre de Ferréol et Ferjeux / Martyrdom of the twin saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio The scene shows the bishop Saint Ferreolus getting his tongue wrenched with Saint Ferrutio as deacon behind him. In the top is depicted that the souls of the twin saints are carried to heaven by two angels (Wikipedia)


The tympanum of the Holy Cross. The scene represents the Authentication of the True Cross. In Jerusalem, St. Helena, after having found the three crosses of Golgotha, succeeds in revealing the authenticity of the cross of Christ by the miracle of the resurrection of a dead person at its touch.