Church of Saint Ludmila, Baroque church in Tetín, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint Ludmila is a plain single-nave baroque building from the 1680s with a rectangular plan and a three-sided presbytery. Its facade is divided by pilasters with cornice capitals and topped by a volute triangular pediment. It stands next to the Romanesque Church of Saint Catherine.
The church was built in the 1680s as the youngest of Tetín's churches. During the Josephine reforms it escaped abolition because local residents requested it as their parish church, preferring it to the Church of St. Michael. It was reconstructed in 1992.
The main altar painting shows Saint Ludmila and the priest Paul teaching Saint Wenceslas, with statues of Saints Adalbert and Procopius beside it. A stone said to be the one on which Ludmila was killed lies under glass in the altar mensa. Local legend holds that this church and the neighbouring Romanesque Church of Saint Catherine slowly draw closer, and when they touch, the Last Judgement will come.
The church stands right beside the Romanesque Church of St. Catherine, so both can be seen in one stop. The village of Tetín lies a short distance south of Beroun, and the site is reached on foot within the village rather than from a main road.
The glazed altar mensa holds a stone on which, according to tradition, Saint Ludmila was killed. A local legend also says this church and the neighbouring Romanesque Church of Saint Catherine slowly draw closer, and when they touch, the Last Judgment will come.
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