LANDELIN, SS.

Two saints of the seventh century.

Landelin (Landolin), fl. early seventh century, a hermit and possibly a missionary laboring near the site of the future Abbey of Ettenheimmünster in Baden, near Freiburg im Breisgau. He apparently suffered a violent death, and he is honored as a martyr at Ettenheimmünster, Strasbourg, and Freiburg im Breisgau.

Feast: Sept. 21.

Landelin of Crespin and lobbes, abbot; d. c. 686. He was a Frankish noble, who, according to folcwin of lobbes in his Gesta abbatum Lobiensium (Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores (Berlin 1826–) 4:56), was converted from a life of robbery by Bp. St. Autbert of Cambrai (d. c. 669) and founded the monastery of Lobbes (654) at the site of his former crimes (Hainaut, Belgium) as well as the Abbey of Crespin (670, Department of Nord, France), and perhaps the monasteries of aulne (656 in Hainaut) and Walers-en-Faigne (657 in Hainaut) also.

Feast: June 15.

Bibliography: Landelin, or Landolin. j. van der straeten, Analecta Bollandiana 73 (1955) 66–97, life; ibid., 97–118, text. Bibliographica hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis 2:4699. a. zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum (Metten 1933–38) 2:313–315. a. zimmermann, Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, ed. j. hofer and k. rahner (Freiburg 1957–65) 6:772–773. Landelin. Acta sanctorum June 3:538–544. a. potthast, Bibliotheca historica medii aevi 2:1417. Bibliographica hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis 2:4696–98; suppl. No. 4698a. u. berliÈre, Monasticon belge, v.1 (Bruges 1890).

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