Volume 1

A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood.

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Credit: A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$an oratory in the days of pope Paul below the basilica of St. Peter without the walls (Anast. 85-95). LEO (2) Pope A.D. 683, June 28 (Anastasius, the Capitulary published by Pronto, Mart. Rom. Bede, Ado, Usuard). Sollerius would make out that this was originally a festival of Leo I. But it is not certain that all the celebrations in the sacramentary of Gregory really date from Gre- gory’s time. (For the collects there given v. Muratori, p. 100, or Migne; v. Rossi, i. 127.) (3) Bishop of Catania, Feb. 20 {Cal. Byz.) (4) Martyr, March 1 {Mart. Ilieron.). (6) Bishop of Sens, Apr. 22 {Mart. Ifieron.). (6) Confessor at Troyes, May 25 (Usuard.) (7) Or Leontius, {Mart. Gelion.) martyr, Oct. 2 {Mart. Hieron.). (8) Subdeacon, martyr at Rome, June 30 {Mart. Hieron. Usuard). (9) Martyr, drowned by the mob at Patara in Lycia, under Lollianus, on February 18 {Cal. Byz. V. Tillem. v. 581); not in the Menology of Basil. He seems to have been confounded with Leo 1. His acts, however, assign his death to June 30, an attempted identification with (8). [E. B. B.] LEOBARDXJS, monk of Tours, f Jan. 18, A.D. 583. {Acta SS. Jan. ii. 562.) [E. B. B.] LEOBINUS, bishop of Chartres, f a.d. 557; commemorated Sept. 15. (Bede, Raban, Wan- delbert, Usuard.) [E. B. B.] LEOCADIA, virgin, of Toledo, commemo- rated Dec. 9 {Cal. Hispano-Goth. ; Mart. Rom. Parvum). Ado adds that she died in prison on hearing of the tortures of Eulalia. She had three churches in Toledo: one on the site of her martyidom, in which the Gothic kings were buried; a parish church at the spot where she was born; and a cathedral over her tomb, in which the councils of Toledo were held. On the Saracen invasion, about A.D. 724, her relics were carried into Hainault. {De Vitis Sanctorum, Cologne 1605. Sollier’s Usuard.) [E. B. B.j LEODEGARIUS, Leudegarius, Laude- GARius (St. Leger), bishop of Autun, killed by Ebroin, mayor of the palace, a.d. 678, and com- memorated Oct. 2, with a special service in the Gothic missal, as a martyr: “0 beatum virum Laudegarium antistitem qui corpus nexibus ab- solutum, oi’a labiii minuatum oculisque orbatum, exilium perpetratum, lubricitatis saeculi post- positum, diversis tormentis passum, exemplum episcopis reliquit, . . . coronam immarcicilibus floribus remuneratur unde multae post reliquiae in Gallis floruerunt.” The grammar is not perfect, nor is it clear what is meant by the relics of his heavenly crown blooming in Gaul. He is not named in the metrical martyrology of Bede. The pla^e of his martyrdom is still St. Leger’s wood. He was buried at Serein. After- wards the oishops of Autun, An-as, and Poitiers, contended for the possession of his body. They drew lots, and it fell to the latter, and was translated to the monastery of Maxentius at Poitiers, March 16, where a church had been dedicated to him the 30th October preceding. {Acta SS. Oct. i. 427, 428.) Monasteries were dedicated to him at Morbach in Alsace, and Massevaux or Masmiinster on the Upper Rhine^ about A.D. 726. {fb. p. 434.) LEODEGARIUS (2) Priest in Le Pertois, 6th century, f June 23. {Acta SS. Jun. v. 414.) [E. B. B.] LEODOWINUS, archbishop of Treves (7th century), f Sept. 29. {Acta SS. Sept. viii. 169.) [E. B. B.] LEOGISIIiUS, Lenogisilus, or Lonegisi- LUS, presbyter at Le Mans (7th century), f Jan. 13. {Acta SS. Jan. ii. 112.) [E. B. B.] LEOLINUS, bishop of Padua (4th century), t June 29. {Acta SS. June, v. 483.) [E. B. B.] LEOMENES, Pontius, of Epineium in Crete, under Decius, martyred Dec. 23. {Cal. Byz.') [E. B. B.] LEON ADIUS, (1) commemorated in Ethiopia, Dec. 27; called by the Copts Leontius the patri- arch, and commemorated by them on the 28th. (Ludolf, Comm, ad Hist. Ethiop. p. 403.) (2) Commemorated in Ethiopia along with Benikarus, on Jan. 7. {Ih. 404.) [E. B. B.] LEONARD, (1) A noble disciple of St. Re- migius, founder of the monastery of Noblat (St. Leonard), near Limoges; commemorated Nov. 6. He is now honoured in the Greek church also on that day (Arcudius, Anthologion). (2) A monk of Le Mans, who refused to be prior, f Oct. 15, A.D. 570. His relics translated to Corbigny A.D. 877. {Acta SS. Oct. vii. 45.) The two following are found in the additions to Usuard. (3) Confessor at Vendoeuvre, Nov. 27. (4) Confessor at Chiteaudun, Dec. 8. [E. B. B.] LEONIANUS, abbat of Vienne, f Nov. 16, circa a.d. 510. [E. B. B.] LEONIDES, (1) Bishop of Athens, commemo- rated April 15. {Cal. Byz.) (TKoTOi avvAxe rd? ’A0^va? aOpoou Svydyros awrats r/Aiov AecoyiSovs. He is perhaps intended by the mention of the name on April 16 in the Hieronymian Martyro- logy. (2) Father of Origen, and martyr circa A.D. 204. On June 28, the name is joined with Potamiaena and the other disciples of Origen, and thus attached as a companion to Irenaeus the same day. {Mart. Hieron.; Acta SS. June vii. 321.) Supposed to be the one mentioned with Arator, Quiriacus, and Basilius, April 22 m the Mart. Hieron. and Acta SS. April, iii. 10. (3) Martyr at Antioch, April 26. {Mart. Hieron.) (4) Burnt to death with Eleutherius, Aug. 8. The Mart. Hieron. names Leonides only, and assigns him to Philadelphia. Some menologies add, “ and the babes,” and say that their synaxis was performed “ in the house of St. Irene, in the buildings of Justinian outside the gate.” {Acta SS. Aug. ii. 342.) (5) The name is mentioned March 1 or Jan. 28, as a martyr at Antinous in the Thebais, under Decius. {Acta SS. Jau. iii. 448.) [E. B. B.] LEONILLA, martyred with her three twin grandchildren, under M. Aurelius or Aurelian,$