Carthusian Saints (PDF) - Charterhouse of the Transfiguration

many European countries in the Middle Ages, Pope Paul VI proclaimed
Saint Benedict the patron Saint of all Europe.
3. This House still exists but is today a monastery of Carmelite nuns.
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BLESSED LANUIN
- GERMANY -
(APRIL 11, 1120)
Two men of a very similar name are among the early companions
of our holy founder, Saint Bruno. Landuin (with a ‘d’) was the
monk who, after Saint Bruno’s departure for Rome (see Saint Bruno’s
life, above) and the dispersion of his first companions, led a group of
monks back to the Grande Chartreuse, the cradle of our Order, and
there became the second Prior. Lanuin (without a ‘d’), of whom we
now speak, was our founder’s faithful companion all through his stay
in Italy, assisted at his deathbed and became his successor at the
Calabrian foundation.
This Lanuin was not
one of the seven who had
founded the first monastery
with Bruno in France
in 1084, but joined himself
to that group three or
four years later. Like
Saint Bruno himself, he
was a German. When in
1090 Saint Bruno was
asked by Pope Urban II to
leave his new foundation
in the French Alps in order
to help the Pope in
Rome, Lanuin went with
him. Clearly our founder was impressed with his deep spirituality and
unusual gifts. In Rome he lived with Saint Bruno and a few others as
monastically as possible. When Saint Bruno was able to go to
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