Landulf of Yariglia

Saint Landulf
Bishop of Asti
Died 1134
Asti, Italy
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast 7 June

The beatus Landulf of Yariglia (Italian: Beato Landolfo da Vareglate[1]) was Benedictine Bishop of Asti, Italy.[2]

He was born in the latter part of the eleventh century at ‘Vareglate’, which has been identified with the village of Vergiate to the north of Milan, and also with Variglié, a locality near Asti. He studied at the Benedictine monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia, but did not become a monk.[3]

Having been ordained a priest his career took him to Milan where, in 1100, he joined Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan for the Crusade of 1101. He was elected Bishop of Asti in 1105.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also identified as S. Landolfo II di Vanigliate o Varigliè, by Lorenzo Gentile in his Storia della Chiesa di Ast (1934) (extract).
  2. ↑ St. Landulf of Yariglia Catholic Online
  3. ↑ See Maria Margherita Roggia, ‘Beato Landolfo da Vareglate’, santiebeati.it, 2002. The monastery is adjacent to the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro.
  4. ↑ Roggia, 2002.


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