Landelin
Landelin of Crespin, also Lando, Landolin Lando Linus and Lobbes, (* 6th century or the 7th century, † June 15 686 ), was the founder and abbot of the monastery in Hainault. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a saint; His feast day is June 15.
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Life-history
The to-find in different life reports details of his birth as well as year of his death are contradictory and soft part considerably from one another, and the annual figures of the steps he had taken monastic foundations are difficult to reconcile with those who have been published about his eventful youth. This is partly due to lack of written records from that time, in part probably because of his life umrankenden subsequent legend. His birth is variously placed in the years 605, 613, 625, 635 and 637; is expected from the data of monastic foundations back that fall within the period 650-670, the period in the first two decades of the 7th century, seems more plausible. He probably died in the year 686, but also 685 and even 707 are called.
Youth
Landelin came to Vaux at Bapaume in the Pas -de- Calais as the scion of a Frankish noble family of the Lords of Vaulx, to the world. His parents looked for him, as a posthumous son, an ecclesiastical career before. Well at the age of seven, he came into the care of the bishop of Cambrai Autbert who baptized him and it should now prepare for the priesthood. Shortly before his consecration he ran, the suggestions of dubious relatives following, but it and joined a band of robbers, whose leader he was soon under the name " Maurosus " and remained for five years.
Only after one of his closest companions had been killed in a night raid, it came to conversion. In the dream, he should have seen how evil spirits led the soul of his crony to hell, while an angel Landelin exhorted to repentance and penance. He then left his cronies and went crawling back to his tutor Autbert. This took him back with him, and subjected him to a rigorous Bußregiment. Soon after Landelin became a monk. He undertook three pilgrimages to Rome and was ordained a deacon after the first and after the second priest.
Monastic foundations
Lobbes
After returning from the third journey to Rome, where his two companions Adelin him ( Adelinus, Adelenus ) and Domitian ( Domitianus, Domitian, Deumianus ) had accompanied that received three of Bishop Autbert permission to go to Hainaut to there in to pray the seclusion and to atone. Landelin chose a desolate spot on the Sambre, which after there which opens Bach Laubach ( Laubac, Laubacus ) is said to have formerly had the name " Labieni Castra ", now called " Laubacum " ( Laubium, Laubiae, Lobias, Lobbes ) received and today a village in Belgium. There, however, he poured more and more students, including many of his former band members, so that he saw himself eventually forced to 650 to set up only a solid community and then a monastery according to the rules of St. Benedict, which he with lands which his family had received from the Frankish kings, endowed. The plant grew rapidly, and in 654 the abbey was consecrated Lobbes formally. Since Landelin considered himself unworthy to be abbot, and would rather live in solitude, he appointed one of his first students, the later canonized Ursmar ( Ursmer, Ursmarus ), abbot; This completed the Convention started building, built the monastery church and the church of Notre Dame, and devoted himself to missionary work in what is now Belgium.
Alder
Landelin remained until 654 in Lobbes. Then he moved to the hamlet of Alder ( Aune, Alna ), today part of the municipality Thuin in the province of Hainaut in Belgium, a few kilometers from Lobbes, and founded there in 656 on the Sambre a second Benedictine monastery, the Abbey Alder, he also endowed with geschenktem by the Franks kings land.
Waslere ( Waller )
Just one year later, 657, he founded on possession, had given his family of King Dagobert I., a third monastery, the Abbey Waslere, a few kilometers south of Alder, in Wallers- en- Fagne he the Apostles Peter and Paul, devoted and his student Dodo imputed as abbot.
Crespin
Driven by the desire for solitude, he moved soon after with Adelin and Domitian in the forest of Amblise in Hainaut between Valenciennes and Mons, where he built a wooden cell on the banks of the groves, which opens at Condé- sur- l'Escaut in the Scheldt. When the owner of the forest wanted to take as a prize for the unauthorized Cutting branches off them their clothes, he was paralyzed; after publication of the clothes he was cured of Landelin again. Also according to his prayer at the site, his staff came to the Landelin on the earth, a strong source be emerged whose rippling waves ( " crispantibus undiscounted " ) led him to call the place " Crispinium " ( Crespin ). The reputation of the three hermits and the stories of miraculous deeds Landelins attracted increasingly brought new students so that Landelin built a chapel, which then became the nucleus of the well to 670 consecrated and dedicated to the Apostle Peter Benedictine monastery Crespin. Landelin became its first abbot, but built near their own small hermitage where he usually stayed to pray in seclusion. His two faithful Adelin and Domitian moved to outlying cabins.
Death
Landelin died in Crespin, probably on June 15, 686, and was buried in the local monastery church.