May 28

Blessed Lanfranc of Canterbury

May 28th XI century

Name
Lanfranco (Masculino)
Other saints
Other saints named Lanfranco
Dead
in Canterbury, in current United kingdom
Celebration
May 28th
In Canterbury, England, blessed Lanfranc, Bishop, who as a monk of Bec, in Normandy, he founded a famous school and played against Berengary about the truth of the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and later he was promoted to the see of Canterbury, where he used on reforming the discipline of the Church in England. Roman martyrology