Career
His principal work, first printed in the 1470s, was the Vita Christi (Life of Christ). lieutenant 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. Little is known about Ludolph of Saxony"s life.
He may have been born about 1295, but this is uncertain.
We have no certain knowledge of his native country. Foreign in spite of his surname, "of Saxony", he may well, as Jacques Échard remarks, have been born either in the Diocese of Cologne or in the Diocese of Mainz, which then belonged to the Province of Saxony.
Three years later he was called upon to govern the newly founded (1331) Charterhouse of Koblenz. But scruples of conscience led him to resign his office of prior in 1348.
Having again become a simple monk, first at Mainz and afterwards at Strasburg, he spent the last thirty years of his life in retreat and prayer, and died on 13 April 1378 an octogenarian, universally esteemed for his sanctity, although he never seems to have been honoured with any public cult.