Editing Gudula (section)

==Iconography==
Saint Gudula is often depicted holding a lantern or taper, but this originates probably out of confusion with the Paris Saint [[Genevieve]] tradition. She is depicted on a seal of the Church of St. Gudula of 1446 holding in her right hand a [[candle]], and in her left a lamp, which a [[demon]] tries to extinguish. This refers to the legend that the saint went to church before [[rooster|cock]]-crow. The demon, wishing to stray her off the right way, extinguished the candle, but the saint obtained from God that her lantern should be rekindled.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=Lanzi>[https://books.google.com/books?id=D_aF50Lo8lQC&dq=Gudula&pg=PA127 Fernando Lanzi, Fernando and Gioia, "Gudula of Brussels, Virgin", ''Saints and Their Symbols'', Liturgical Press, 2004], {{ISBN|9780814629703}} p. 127</ref>

The flower called ''tremella deliquescens'', which bears fruit in the beginning of January, is known as ''Sinte Goedele's lampken'' (St. Gudula's lantern).