Landulf of Yariglia explained

Honorific Prefix:Saint
Landulf
Death Date:1134
Feast Day:7 June
Venerated In:Roman Catholic Church
Death Place:Asti, Italy
Titles:Bishop of Asti

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] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Also identified as S. Landolfo II di Vanigliate o Varigliè, by Lorenzo Gentile in his Storia della Chiesa di Ast (1934) (extract).
  2. http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4192 St. Landulf of Yariglia
  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.