Illustration for the legend: Saint Ludmila's Underground Passage
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Saint Ludmila's Underground Passage

Celetná

Historically
dům Sixtův v Celetné ulici
Period
10. století

In memory of that victory the Christians had a picture of the battle painted on the house in the Týn Court where Saint Ludmila is said to have lived before she moved to Tetín — and it was long to be seen there. Others relate that Saint Ludmila lived in what later became the Sixt house in Celetná Street, from which she had an underground passage to the church; by it she went at night with Saint Wenceslas to her devotions, and she had a stone altar in that passage too, at which holy mass was said at the time when Drahomíra ordered the Týn church to be closed. Ruth himself remarks that this tale arose from an error: old accounts of the first church of Our Lady in Prague were formerly taken to refer to the Týn church, although Prague was originally the castle on Hradčany.

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