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ERLUIN, ABBOT - 10 AUGUST

 

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VENERABLE ERLUIN, ABBOT


Venerable Erluin (Erluinus), a secular priest, was friends with the pious nobleman Guibert, who founded the monastery of Gemblour (Gemblacum). Knowing Erluin's tendency to solitary life, Guibert appointed him abbot. Count Rainer of Hainault, moreover, entrusted him with the management of the monasteries of Soignies and Lobbe. 

The latter institute had not had its own abbot for 100 years and was accordingly run down. 
When Erluin turned up there to put affairs in order, the monks were reluctant to recognise the abbot, to say the least. Three of them even conspired against him, blinded him, and sent him back to Gemblour. 

Erluin endured this act of violence and its consequences with steadfast patience and, deprived of the earthly light, now beheld all the more the heavenly. After this sad event he shone through his godly life for another 28 years. Erluin went to his eternal reward in A.D. 986. (Buc. Suppl., Lech.)

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 83)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org








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