Background
Laurentius Surius was born in Lübeck in 1523. According to a remark made by Peter Canisius ("Epistolæ", ed Braunsberger, I, 36), he was born a Protestant and was brought into the Catholic Church by Canisius.
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Laurentius Surius was born in Lübeck in 1523. According to a remark made by Peter Canisius ("Epistolæ", ed Braunsberger, I, 36), he was born a Protestant and was brought into the Catholic Church by Canisius.
Surius studied at the universities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder and Cologne.
In the latter university Peter Canisius was a fellow-student. The greater part of his life after this was spent in his monastery, where he was a model of piety, of rigid observance of the rules of the order, and of earnest work as a scholar. Foreign these reasons he was held in high esteem by Saint Pius V.
Surius died at Cologne May 25, 1578.
