Saint Landelin (
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and la, Landelinus; french: La(u)ndelin; 625 – 686 AD in what is now
Belgium
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) is a saint in the
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and
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Life
Landelin was born to a noble family at Vaux near
Bapaume
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The inhabitants of this commune are known as ''Bapalmois'' or ''Bapalmoises''.
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Bapaume is a far ...
in 623, and educated in learning and piety under the care of St. Aubert, bishop of Cambrai. Through the seduction and example of certain relations, whose flatteries unfortunately struck in with his passions, he insensibly began to walk in the broad way of the world, and from a life of pleasure and diversions, fell at length into great disorders and became a
brigand
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.
[Butler, Alban. "St. Landelin, Abbot", ''The Lives of the Saints''. 1866]
The sudden death of one of his companions caused him to reconsider his path and he underwent a
Christian
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conversion. Bishop Aubert placed him in an austere monastery to do penance for some years, and later ordained him deacon, and, when he was thirty years of age, priest, and appointed him to preach to the people. But Landelin begged leave to retire in solitude to Laubach, now called Lobes, a desert place on the banks of the Sambre.
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Several persons resorting to him, and imitating his manner of life, though at first they lived in separate cells, gave rise to the great abbey of Lobes, about the year 654. when he had laid the foundation of this house, Landelin, left his disciple, St. Ursmar, to finish the building, and constituted him the first abbot.][
As a result of this, in about 650 he founded a ]monastery
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at Lobbes
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On 1 January 2006 Lobbes had a total population of 5,499. The total area is 32.08 km² which gives a population density of 171 inhabitants per k ...
in Hainaut - Lobbes Abbey
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- in order to make amends to the area which he had formerly injured.
He also founded Crespin Abbey
Crespin Abbey (french: Abbaye de Crespin) was a Benedictine monastery in the commune of Crespin in the department of Nord, France, founded around 648 by the reformed brigand Landelin of Crespin, also the first abbot, and dissolved in 1802.
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, and is credited with the foundation of Aulne Abbey
Aulne Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located in Wallonia between Thuin and Landelies on the Sambre in the Bishopric of Liège in Belgium, now a Walloon Heritage Site.
History
It was originally founded as a Benedictine monastery in 656 on the b ...
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Once the number of monks had increased and the future of the community was assured Landelin resigned as abbot, in order to dedicate his life to the practice of austerities.
His feast day is June 15.
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686 deaths
Belgian Roman Catholic saints
7th-century Frankish saints
category:Benedictine abbots
7th-century Christian clergy
Year of birth unknown