Saint Landelin
Abbé à Crespin, près de
Valenciennes (+ v. 686)
Ses brigandages le rendaient célèbre en Artois. Puis, poussé par la grâce, il se convertit et décida de vivre en reclus à Lobbes dans le Hainaut, puis à Crespin. Ces ermitages devinrent, par la suite, d'intenses foyers de vie monastique.
Un bandit peut-il devenir moine?*
C’était du temps du roi Dagobert, les frontières n’étaient pas les mêmes. Aujourd’hui le village de Crespin jouxte la frontière belge, sur les bords de l’autoroute Valenciennes - Bruxelles. Landelin, moine évangélisateur de la Sambre, finira ses jours à Crespin.
Bien que de grande famille Landelin bascule dans la débauche et devient bandit des grands chemins dans les forêts de l’Avesnois. Mais la vision apparue au cours d’une nuit retourne notre bandit sur lui-même et il revient vers sa famille en particulier son parrain Saint Aubert.
Saint Landelin va vivre la phrase de l’évangile: «Convertissez-vous.» Cela va l’amener à une nouvelle vie, pleine de création d’abbayes et d’annonce de l’évangile.
*Extrait du livret «Chemins des Hommes, Chemin de Dieu». (diocèse de Cambrai)
Relais Saint Landelin : Qui est saint Landelin?
Abbaye Saint Landelin: Fondée en 646, par Saint Landelin, un moine envoyé par le Pape Martin pour prêcher l'évangile dans les Gaules et en Belgique, c'est vers 673 que l'église abbatiale fut bâtie. Il ne reste plus que quelques vestiges de cette église… Venu pour évangéliser la région, Saint Landelin et ses compagnons traversèrent la grande forêt d'Emblise. La légende raconte : "Landelin ayant fiché son bourdon en terre, pria Dieu et aussitôt jaillit une source abondante." (Ville de Crespin - 59154 - Commune du Nord Pas de Calais - >> Patrimoine et Bâtiments Historiques)
À Crespin en Hannonie, vers 686, saint Landelin, abbé. Célèbre brigand converti
à l’exercice des vertus par l’évêque saint Aubert, il
fonda le monastère de Lobbes, puis gagna celui de Crespin, où il mourut.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1326/Saint-Landelin.html
Franz
Xaver Nissl: Figur über dem Beichtstuhl, 1774, in der Kirche des Klosters in
Fiecht
Also
known as
Landelinus
Lando
Landolin
Landelino
Landolinus
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Born to the nobility,
Landelinus lived for a time as a highway bandit, but repented and became
a Benedictine monk. Priest.
Founded monasteries in France and Belgium including Lobbes, Beligum in 654; Aulne
Abbey, Belgium in 656;
Wallers, France in 657;
Crespin, France in 670.
Worked with Saint Ursmar.
Spiritual director of Saint Hadelin
of Lobbes and Saint Domitian
of Lobbes.
Born
686 of
natural causes
in Belgium
in France
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Landelin of
Crespin“. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 February 2024. Web. 20 April 2026.
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(Saint) Abbot (June 15)
(7th
century) Nobly born in the North of France, though carefully brought up by
Saint Aubert of Cambrai, he walked for a time in the broad way of perdition,
until the sudden death of one of his companions made him turn to God. He
entered an austere monastery and, having been promoted to the priesthood,
retired to a desert place on the River Sambre, where he founded the Abbey of
Lobbes (Laubacum), of which he gave the government to Saint Wismar, and later
that of Crepy (Crespiacum) where he died A.D. 686. Like his saintly
contemporaries of the North-East of France and of Belgium, Saint Landelinus was
a zealous missionary and unsparing of himself in his efforts to convert the heathen.
MLA
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Monks of Ramsgate.
“Landelinus”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
17 January 2014. Web. 20 April 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-landelinus/>
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St. Landelinus
Feastday: June 15
Death: 686
Benedictine abbot raised
by St.
Autbert of Cambrai, France. Landelinus became a robber for a time but
then repented and was ordained. He founded Lobbes Abbey in
634 and three other abbeys, including Crespin, where he died.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4188
Landelinus, OSB Abbot
(RM)
Born at Vaux near
Bapaume, France, c. 625; died c. 686. Though carefully raised by Bishop Saint
Aubert of Cambrai, Saint Landelinus went astray for a time. We often take it
for granted that we must teach children about the lures and dangers of the
world and the need for continual prayer and watchfulness to avoid the pitfalls.
Apparently, Bishop Aubert instilled only innocence and virtue into Landelinus.
Unprepared to handle the seductions of the world, Landelinus fell in with bad
company and became a robber. He was struck with terror when one of his
companions died suddenly. Recognizing his error, he flew to Saint Aubert and
threw himself at the feet of the good bishop who had never ceased praying for
Landelinus's repentance.
Aubert gave him the
penance of making reparations in a monastery for some years. This Landelinus
undertook with fervor and contrition. His zeal became such that Aubert ordained
him deacon and, at the age of 30, priest. He was assigned to preach but begged
to be allowed to continue his penitential life as a hermit. With Aubert's
permission, Landelinus retired to Laubach on the banks of the Sambre.
He attracted several
disciples to him, who each lived in a separate cell. In 654, they joined in
community life by founding the Lobbes (Lanbacum) Abbey. When the abbey was
complete, the brothers tried to convince Landelinus to govern them. Feeling
himself unworthy to lead saints, he left them under the direction of Saint
Ursmar and again sought solitude. A second time, disciples gathered leading to
the establishment of Aulne Abbey in 656, which now belongs to the Cistercians.
The pattern repeated itself with the founding of the abbey at Walers (657).
Finally, Landelinus and his companions Saints Domitian and Hadelinus erected
some cells in a thick forest between Mons and Valenciennes. Again, disciples
found them and Créspin (Crepy, Crespiacum) Abbey was founded in 670. Realizing
that God might be telling him something, Landelinus agreed to govern this
flock, which he did until his death. While continuing his penitential courses,
Landelinus began preaching in the nearby villages. Thus, he fulfilled God's plan
for his life (Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth).
In art, Saint Landelin is
portrayed as he is dying in sackcloth and ashes, while the devil carries his
former companion to hell. He might also be shown in Mass vestments, striking
water from the earth with his pastoral staff (Roeder). Landelinus is venerated
in Cambrai (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0615.shtml
June 15
St. Landelin, Abbot
HE was nobly born at Vaux
near Bapaume in 623, and educated in learning and piety under the care of St.
Aubert, bishop of Cambray; for it was then the laudable custom for noblemen to
commit the education of their sons to some holy and learned bishop or abbot,
insomuch that many houses of bishops as well as monasteries were seminaries of
youth. It is a point of the utmost importance that youth coming out of such
sanctuaries of innocence and virtue, enter the world well apprised of its
dangers, and infinitely upon their guard against bad company and the love of
vanities and pleasures, which they cannot fortify themselves too much against.
They must bring along with them all their religion, nourish it in their hearts
by assiduous meditation, and confirm it in their minds by pious reading and
consideration, and by the daily exercises of all the other duties of that
virtue. A neglect of this precaution proved for some time fatal to Landelin.
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. But the sudden death of one of his companions struck him with
such a terror, that he entered seriously into himself, like the prodigal son,
and in the deepest compunction went and cast himself at the feet of St. Aubert,
who had never ceased to pray for his conversion. The bishop placed him in an
austere monastery to do penance for some years; in which, so extraordinary were
his fervour and contrition, that St. Aubert ordained him deacon, and, when he
was thirty years of age, priest, and appointed him to preach to the people. But
the holy penitent having his past sins always before his eyes, begged leave to
weep for them in solitude and severe penance: which, when he had obtained, he
retired to Laubach, now called Lobes, a desert place on the banks of the
Sambre. 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. Landelin, regarding himself as unworthy, could not
bear to see himself at the head of a religious community of saints; and when he
had laid the foundation of this house, he left his disciple, St. Ursmar, to
finish the building, and constituted him the first abbot. Landelin afterwards
founded Aune, which is at present a house of Cistercians. The French kings
bestowed on him great estates, the chief part of which he settled on his first
monastery of Lobes. In quest of closer solitude, he with his two companions,
SS. Adelin and Domitian, erected some cells of the branches of trees in a thick
forest between Mons and Valenciennes. Here also disciples flocked to him, and
he founded the abbey of Crespin, which he was at length obliged to govern
himself. By preaching in the village he instructed the people in the science of
salvation, but he never interrupted his penitential courses. He died in
sackcloth and ashes in 686. His name occurs in the Roman Martyrology on the
15th of June. See his life in Mabillon, sæc. 2. Ben. p. 873.
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume VI: June. The Lives of the Saints. 1866
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/6/152.html
Benedictine Abbey of
Lobbes
Located in
Hainault, Belgium,
founded about 650, by St. Landelin, a converted brigand, so that the place
where his crimes had been committed might benefit by his conversion. As the
number of monks increased
rapidly the saintly founder, desiring to consecrate his life
to austerities rather than to discharge the duties of abbot, resigned his
post. He was succeeded by St. Ursmer, who gave most of his energies to
preaching Christianity among
the still pagan Belgians. More fortunate
than most monasteries,
Lobbes preserved its ancient annals, so that its history is known in
comparatively minute detail. The "Annales Laubicenses", printed in
Pertz, "Mon. Germ. Hist.: Scriptores", should be consulted. The fame
of St. Ursmer, his successor St. Ermin, and other holy men soon drew numbers of
disciples, and Lobbes became the most important monastery of the
period in Belgium,
the abbatial school rising
to special fame under Anson, the sixth abbot. About 864 Hubert,
brother-in-law of Lothair II, became abbot, and, by his
dissolute life brought the monastery into a
state of decadence; both temporal and spiritual, from which it did not recover
until the accession of Francon. By him the Abbacy of Lobbes was united to the
Bishopric of Liège,
which he already held, and this arrangement continued until 960, when the monastery regained
its freedom. The reigns of Abbots Folcuin (965-990) and Heriger (990-1007)
were marked by rapid advance, the school especially
attaining a great reputation.
From this period,
although the general observance seems on the whole to have continued good, the
fame of the abbey gradually
declined until the fifteenth century, when the great monastic revival,
originating in the congregation of Bursfeld, brought fresh life into it. In
1569 Lobbes and several other abbeys, the most
important being that of St. Vaast or Vedast at Arras, were combined to
form the "Benedictine Congregation of Exempt Monasteries of
Flanders", sometimes called the "Congregation of St. Vaast". In
1793 the last abbot,
Vulgise de Vignron, was elected. Thirteen months later both abbot and community
were driven from the monastery by
French troops, and the law of 2 September,
1796, decreed their final expulsion. The monks, who numbered
forty-three at that date,
were received into various monasteries in Germany and
elsewhere; and the conventual buildings were subsequently destroyed, with the
exception of the farm and certain other portions that have been incorporated in
the railway station.
Sources
Annales Laubicenses in
PERTZ, Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script., I-IV, XXI; Breve Chronicon
Laubiense in MARTÈNE, Thesaurus Nov. Anecd., III (Paris, 1717),
1409-1431; Epistola Lobiensium monachorum in D'ACHÉRY, Spicilegium,
VI (Paris, 1664), 598-601; MABILLON, Annales Bened. (Paris, 16-), II,
V; Gallia Christiana, III (Paris, 1725), 79-80; BERLIÈRE, Monasticon
Belge, I (Bruges, 1890-97). 179-228; LEJEUNE, Monographie de l'ancienne
Abbaye de St. Pierre de Lobbes (Mons, 1883); Vos, Lobbes, son abbaye
et son chapitre (2 vols., Louvain, 1865); BERLIÈRE, Notice sur
l'abbaye de Lobbes in Revue Bénédictine, V, 302, 370, 392.
Huddleston,
Gilbert. "Benedictine Abbey of Lobbes." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1910. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09318a.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to
the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2026 by New Advent LLC.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09318a.htm
Lobbes (Municipality,
Province of Hainaut, Belgium)
Last modified: 2012-05-17 by ivan sache
The municipality of
Lobbes (5,515 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 3,208 ha) is located mid-distance
(10 km) of Charleroi and
the border with France; the town is separated from the neighbouring town
of Thuin by
the river Sambre. The municipality of Lobbes is made, since 1976, of the former
municipalities of Lobbes, Mont-Sainte-Geneviève, Sars-la-Buissière and
Bienne-lez-Happart.
Lobbes was introduced as
follows by Roger Foulon, a writer from Thuin:
Une histoire et l'Histoire ont créé Lobbes, en ont fait une légende vraie, un petit espace de feuillages et d'eaux nourri de passé, de présent, un point sur l'échiquier du monde, au cœur de l'Occident, à trois lieues du beau pays de France.
A story and history have created Lobbes, have made of it a true legend, a small
place with leaves and waters nurished by the past and the present, a point on
the world's checkboard, in the heart of Occident, three leagues away from the
nice country of France).
The town of Lobbes emerged around the abbey of Lobbes, which was once one of the most powerful in the Low Countries. The St. Usmer collegiate church, built in the IXth century on the top of the Sambre hillside (40 m asl), is considered as the oldest church in Belgium.
In 654, St. Landelin (c. 625-686) founded the Benedictine abbey of Lobbes. The
semi-legendary hagiography of Landelin claims he was of the lineage of the
Frankish King Mérovée (c. 411-457), the root of the Merovingian dynasty. There
is hardly no historical data on Mérovée and several historians believe he never
existed. Landelin was christened by St. Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai and
was about to take the coat when his cousins introduced him to the sinful life.
Landelin joined a band of rascals scouring the local forests and became their
chief. Landelin, then known as Maurosus, killed, raped and tortured, until the
death of one of his prefered fellows. Landelin had then a dream showing a band
of demons struggling for bringing the dead's soul into hell; then an angel
appeared and asked Landelin to choose immediatly between hell and paradise.
Landelin left and ask pardon to Bishop Aubert, which was granted in 643.
Anyway, Landelin was ordered by Pope Martin to evangelize Gaul and decided to
build an abbey on his crimes' place, helped by an increasing number of disciples.
Landelin was succeeded by
St. Ursmer (c. 645-713; canonized in 823), who was encouraged to take the coat
by St. Amand, the Apostle of Belgium, and supported by the Merovingian ruler
Pepin of Herstal,
who needed a base for the evangelization of Flanders. Pope Sergius I visited
Lobbes around 697: he exempted the monastery of any control but by the Holy See
and offered to Usmer relics of St. Peter in order to promote a yearly
pilgrimage. Ursmer built two churches, one in the valley and one uphill, and
made of the abbey a center of religion and science. He is considered as the
true founder of the abbey of Lobbes.
Ursmer appointed Ermin
(d. 737) as his successor. Ermin's domains, located near Laon, produced the
wine required for the mass in the abbey. When Ermin's neighbour attempted to
confiscate the vineyard in 1104, the chapter of Lobbes send there a reliquary
with St. Ermin's relics in order to threaten the potential invader. This was successful
but no miracle occurred since the alleged Ermin's relics were indeed St.
Théodulphe's relics, whose miraculous properties were unsignificant (at that
time, the relics were fiercely disputed and the most precious ones were kept in
the monasteries to avoid any theft). However, when the monks stopped at Valenciennes on
their way back to Lobbes, St. Théodulphe's relics cured several ill people and
the monks had a lot of problems to repatriate the saint to Lobbes. In 1056, the
bridge over the Sambre crashed down because of the heavy weight of the carts
bringing the wine, but there was no damage either to the men and oxen or to the
wine thanks to Sts. Ursmer and Ermin. In 1074, Givard of Hirson intercepted the
convey and jailed the monks, only for a few days since an earthquake destroyed
his castle. Since then, a dictum says Saint Ermin protège notre vin (St.
Ermin protects our wine).
Ermin wrote a Vita Ursmari, into verse, with the first letter of each verse following the alphabetic order, whereas Anson the Blessed wrote a Vita Ermini; however, the scholar activity started in Lobbes in 797 when Charlemagne founded a monastic school opened to the laymen and teaching the seven liberal arts (grammar, dialectics, rhetorics, music, arithmetics, geometry and astronomy), with famous professors such as Wazon, Olbert, Hugues and Thierry. Until the XIth century, Lobbes was a main center of publication, with a famous scriptorium where all kinds of manuscripts were copied and decorated with rich illuminations. Two famous illuminators from Lobbes are Folcuin (late Xth century), author of the Gesta abbatum Lobiensium (History of the abbey of Lobbes) and Goderan (late XIth century), author of the Stavelot Bible and the Lobbes Bible.
After the share of the Carolingian Empire (Treaty of Verdun, 843), the abbey of Lobbes was granted in 863 to Hubert, the brother-in-law of King Lothaire II; one year later, half of the goods and domains of the abbey had been squandered. Lothaire commissioned Bishop of Cambrai Jean to list the remaining domains, a manuscript known as the Lobbes Polyptich (868-869). The descriptio villarium lists 42 domains depending on Lobbes; there are also two lists of 183 and 137 villae, respectively. for each place are given the areas of lands and pastures, the number of cattle and pigs, the breweries, the mills, the dependencies, the income and the yield of the last harvests. The Lobbes Polyptich contains the oldest known mention of several current villages and towns. An authentic copy of the Polyptich, made in the XVIIIth century, is kept in the presbytery of Lobbes.
The abbey was then granted to the bishop of Liège and the
collegiate church of Lobbes was rebuilt at the end of the XIth century. Several
Carolingian parts are still visible, especially in the crypt. Around 1060,
Abbott Adélard organized a "tour" of St. Usmer's relics all over
Flanders and Brabant to rise funds for the revamping of the church. In 1084,
Canon Oilbaud reused the silver from the saints' shrines and "hired"
a domesticated she-bear to bring up the stones from the valley of Sambre. The
new church was consecrated in 1095 by Bishop of Liège Otbert.
In the middle of the Xth
century, the Magyars scoured the country of Hesbaye and walked over Lobbes. The
inhabitants and the monks fortified the abbey church, which was besieged in
955. On 2 April, a dust cloud moving up to Lobbes was the sign of the Magyar
cavalry. The church built in the valley was sacked and the monks living there
were killed. When the Magyars attacked the makeshift fortifications, two doves
left the crypt of the church and flew around the besiegers three times. A huge
thunderstorm broke out and slackened the ropes of the Magyars' bows. The
besiegers were wiped downhill by the flood. Since then, the hillside is called
the Magyars' Ravine and the 2 April is the town day. The abbey of Lobbes was
eventually suppressed by the French troops in 1794; it was so wealthy that the
looting lasted three days.
Source: The
collegiate church of Lobbes, in Excursions scolaires website
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2007
The flag of Lobbes is
vertically divided dark green-white. It is hoisted over the town hall and near
the bridge over the Sambre, at the entrance of the town when coming from Thuin.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2007
SOURCE : https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/be-whtlo.html
San Landelino Abate
Festa: 15 giugno
† 686 circa
Di nobile famiglia,
Landelino fondò le abbazie di St-Crespin e di Lobbes; spesso gli si attribuisce
anche la fondazione delle abbazie di Aulne e di Wallers-en-Fagne. Durante la
sua giovinezza avrebbe vissuto da brigante e sarebbe stato convertito da s.
Uberto di Cambrai. Mori verso il 686 a St-Crespin. La sua festa si celebra il
15 giugno.
Martirologio
Romano: A Crespin nell’Hainault, nel territorio dell’odierna Francia, san
Landelino, abate, che, convertito dal vescovo sant’Autberto da una vita di
ruberie all’esercizio delle virtù, fondò un cenobio a Lobbes e si spostò poi a
Crespin, dove finì i suoi giorni.
Nato da nobile stirpe,
intraprese inizialmente una vita dissoluta, segnata da atti di brigantaggio. La
sua conversione, ad opera di San Uberto di Cambrai, segnò una svolta radicale,
conducendolo sulla via della santità e della fondazione di monasteri che
diffusero la luce della fede in un'Europa ancora avvolta nelle tenebre del paganesimo.
Gioventù e Conversione
Landelino nacque in seno a una nobile famiglia dell'Hainaut, nell'odierna
Francia, intorno al 610 d.C. La sua giovinezza fu tuttavia tutt'altro che
esemplare: si abbandonò infatti a una vita di brigantaggio, terrorizzando le
campagne e depredando i viandanti. Un giorno, durante una delle sue scorrerie,
incontrò San Uberto, vescovo di Cambrai, che stava predicando il Vangelo. Le
parole del santo ebbero un impatto profondo su Landelino, il quale, colpito
dalla luce della fede, si pentì sinceramente dei suoi misfatti.
Vita Monastica
Desideroso di espiare le sue colpe e intraprendere un nuovo sentiero di vita,
Landelino si recò presso il monastero di Nivelles, sotto la guida spirituale di
Santa Gertrude. Qui, trascorse anni dedicati alla preghiera, alla penitenza e
allo studio delle Sacre Scritture. La sua conversione sincera e il suo impegno
spirituale non passarono inosservati: ben presto, Landelino divenne un monaco
esemplare, guadagnandosi la stima e la venerazione dei suoi confratelli.
Fondazione delle Abbazie
Forte della sua esperienza e animato da un profondo zelo missionario, Landelino
decise di dedicare la sua vita alla fondazione di monasteri che potessero
diffondere la luce del Vangelo nelle terre ancora pagane. Nel 648, fondò
l'Abbazia di Lobbes, che divenne rapidamente un importante centro di cultura e
spiritualità. Successivamente, si trasferì a Crespin, dove eresse un altro
monastero che prosperò sotto la sua guida illuminata. A lui si attribuisce
anche la fondazione delle abbazie di Aulne e di Wallers-en-Fagne, sebbene le
fonti storiche a riguardo non siano univoche.
Abate Esemplare e Guida Spirituale
Come abate, Landelino si distinse per la sua saggezza, la sua compassione e il
suo incrollabile impegno nel seguire le regole monastiche. Era un leader
autorevole e amato dai suoi confratelli, ai quali offriva saggi consigli e un
esempio di vita virtuosa. La sua fama di santità si diffuse ben oltre i confini
dei suoi monasteri, attirando a lui numerosi fedeli che desideravano ricevere i
suoi insegnamenti e la sua benedizione.
Morte e Culto
San Landelino si spense serenamente a Crespin intorno al 686, lasciando dietro di sé un'eredità spirituale di inestimabile valore. La sua memoria fu subito venerata dai suoi confratelli e dai fedeli, che ne vedevano in lui un esempio di conversione, redenzione e santità. Le sue reliquie vennero custodite nell'Abbazia di Crespin fino all'836, quando, per proteggerle dalle incursioni normanne, furono trasferite a Boke, nell'odierna Germania. Ancora oggi, San Landelino è venerato come santo patrono dell'Abbazia di Lobbes e della città di Crespin. La sua festa si celebra il 15 giugno.
Autore: Franco Dieghi
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/57330
Landelin von Crespin
auch: Lando, Landolin
auch: von Lobbes
Gedenktag katholisch: 15. Juni
Übertragung der Gebeine: 21. September
Ankunft der Gebeine im Kloster Flechtdorf: 15. August
Übertragung der Gebeine nach Paderborn 28. November
Name bedeutet: der
Kleine vom Land (althochdt.)
Abt in Crespin
† 686 in Crespin in
Frankreich
Landelin, Sohn einer
adeligen fränkischen Familie, lebte in jungen Jahren der Überlieferung nach
unter dem Namen Maurosus als Räuber. Er wurde durch Autbert
von Cambrai bekehrt und unternahm dreimal Wallfahrten zu
den sieben
Pilgerkirchen in Rom. Er wurde zum Priester geweiht und später Mönch und
gründete in Autberts Auftrag um 665 das Kloster in Lobbes und
anschließend das Kloster im benachbarten Aulne - dem heutigen Leernes -;
dieses neue Kloster stattete er mit von den Merowingerkönigen
geschenktem Grundbesitz aus. Zudem gründete er 657 das Hilarius
von Poitiers geweihte damalige Kloster in
Wallers - dem heutigen Wallers-en-Fagne - bei Maubeuge und um 670 das Kloster
in Crespin,
wo er Abt war.
Eine erste Erhebung
der Gebeine von
Landelin geschah am 15. Juni 770 durch Bischof Gottfried von Cambrai,
Reliquien kamen um 836 nach Paderborn.
Eine weitere Erhebung erfolgte am 21. September 1105; dann wurden Reliquien an
mehrere Orten gebracht, so nach Cambrai, ins Kloster nach Flechtdorf -
heute Ortsteil von Diemelsee - in der Diözese Paderborn und von dort ins
damalige aus einer Gemeinschft von Einsiedlerinnen hervorgegangene und dann
von Augustinernonnen bewohnte Kloster
Odacker nahe Hirschberg bei Warstein. 1648 kam seine Kopfreliquie in
den Dom nach
Osnabrück.
Das Kloster Aulne im
heutigen Leernes wurde
974 von den Benediktinern aufgegeben,
später siedelten sich Augustiner-Chorherren an.
1147/48 wurde das Kloster auf Anweisung des Bischofs Heinrich II. von Lüttich als Zisterzienserkloster
neu gegründet. Im 15. Jahrhundert wurde es im Zug der Kriege der Burgunder gegen
Lüttich geplündert, im 16. Jahrhundert gab es Überfälle der Geusen und der
Franzosen, in der Französischen Revolution wurde es um 1794 aufgelöst und
niedergebrannt, Ruinen sind erhalten. Das Kloster
Odacker wurde ab 1513 von Benediktinerinnen bewohnt,
in der Säkularisation wurde das Kloster 1804 abgebrochen, nur die um 1700
erbaute Totenkapelle blieb erhalten.
Attribute: als
Einsiedler vor einer Quelle betend, mit Geißel
Der Dom in
Osnabrück ist täglich von 7 Uhr bis 19 Uhr geöffnet. (2024)
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Quellen:
• Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, begr. von Michael Buchberger. Hrsg. von Walter Kasper, 3., völlig neu bearb. Aufl., Bd. 6. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997
• Bruno W. Häuptli. In: Friedrich-Wilhelm Bautz †, Traugott Bautz (Hg.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches
Kirchenlexikon, Bd. XXIV, Nordhausen 2005 Infotafel an der Totenkapelle des
ehemaligen Klosters Odacker
korrekt zitieren: Joachim Schäfer: Artikel Landelin von Crespin, aus dem Ökumenischen Heiligenlexikon - https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienL/Landelin_von_Crespin.html, abgerufen am 20. 4. 2026
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet das Ökumenische
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SOURCE : https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienL/Landelin_von_Crespin.html
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