Lanuinus

Altar of the Carthusian Church in Serra San Bruno; in the altar structure the reliquary with the inscription IN MORTE QVOQVE NON SVNT DIVISI OSSA S PATRIS BRVNONIS ET B LANVINI - “Even in death the bones of the holy father Bruno and the blessed Lanuinus are not separated”.

Lanuinus , Italian Lanuino , German also Landwin , (* in Normandy ; † April 11, 1116 in Serra San Bruno ) was a companion of St. Bruno of Cologne and his successor at the head of the Carthusian Order . Pope Leo XIII confirmed his veneration as blessed at an early stage . 1893.

Lanuinus was a pupil of Bruno of Cologne. The founders of the Carthusian Order were invited to Rome by Pope Urban II and traveled to Italy in 1089 . After two years they retired to the hermitage of Santa Maria della Torre in the diocese of Squillace and developed the basics of the Carthusian way of life.

After Bruno's death in 1101 Lanuinus was elected master of the order by the chapter. Paschal II expressed his joyful approval in the bull Quo magnopere desideravimus . This Pope sent Lanuinus as his representative to the Bishops of Mileto and Messina and in 1108 appointed him apostolic visitor to all the monasteries in Calabria .

Under his leadership, the order flourished thanks to the support of the Normans in southern Italy , the Pope and the Bishop of Squillace.

In the martyrology of the Charterhouse of Santo Stefano del Bosco it is testified that Lanuinus was venerated as a blessed in the middle of the 12th century. Pope Leo XIII. confirmed the long-standing cult on February 4, 1893. In the Martyrologium Romanum, Blessed Lanuinus is commemorated on April 11th.

literature

Filippo Caraffa e Giuseppe Morelli (eds.): Bibliotheca Sanctorum (BSS), 12 volumes, Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome 1961–1969.
Martyrologium Romanum 2004 , German version by the German Liturgical Institute

Individual evidence

↑ Example 1777
↑ Quoted in Pietro De Leo: San Bruno di Colonia: un eremita tra Oriente e Occidente . Soveria Mannelli 2004, p. 49 note 13

personal data
SURNAME	Lanuinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lanuino; Landwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Companion of St. Bruno of Cologne and his successor at the head of the Carthusian Order
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Normandia
DATE OF DEATH	April 11, 1116
Place of death	Serra San Bruno

[1] Example 1777

[2] Quoted in Pietro De Leo: San Bruno di Colonia: un eremita tra Oriente e Occidente . Soveria Mannelli 2004, p. 49 note 13