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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$LEONIS 975 LESTINES, COUNCIL OF in Cappadocia, and translated to Langres in Gaul {Acta SS. Jan. ii. 437); commemorated Jan. 17 {Cal. Byz., Mart. Hieron.., Bede, Ado, Usuard, but not in the Parvum Romanum). The Greeks call her Neonilla. {Men. Basil.) [E. B. B.] . LEONIS, martyr at Augsburg, or more pro- bably at Rome {Acta SS. Aug. ii. 703 a), Aug. 12. [E. B. B.] LEONIUS (1) Confessor, of Melun (St. Liene); commemorated Nov. 12 (Usuard, Wandelbert). Baronius refers him to Nov. 16, but this is a confusion with Leo (Sollier). (2) Of Poitou, if not the same, Feb. 1. {Acta SS. Feb. i. 91.) [E. B. B.] LEONORIUS, bishop in Brittany in the 6th century, f Julv 1. {Acta SS. July, i. 121.) [E. B. B.] LEONTIUS (1) and his brothers, fellow-mar- tyrs of Cosmas—Oct. 17 {Cal. ByzA)\ Sept. 27 {Mart. Rom. Parv. etc.). (2) Martyr at Tripoli in Syria, under Ves- pasian, June 18. {Menol. Bas.) (3) Bishop of Autun (5th century), f July 1. {Mart. Hieron.) (4) Martyr at Nicopolis of Armenia, under Licinius, July 10 {Menol. Bas.). In the Mart. Hieron. Alexandria stands for Armenia [contracted aria]. He is assigned to the right place next day. (5) Martyr under Diocletian at Perga in Pam- phylia, August 1. {Menol. Basil.) (6) Martyr at Amasea in Pontus, August 19. {Mart. Hieron.) (7) In Lucania with Valentia, August 20. {Mart. Hieron.) (8) The entry is repeated next day, but the name is said here to belong to a bishop of Bor- deaux of the 6th century. {Acta SS. Aug. iv. 442.) (9) Martyr with Carpophorus at Vicenza, cf. Peter de Natalibus, 1. 7, c. 87, either Aug. 20 {AA. SS. iv. 35) or March 19 {Acta SS. March, iii. 29). (10) Martyr at Alexandria with Serapion, Sept. 15. {Mart. Hieron.) (11) In Cappadocia, Nov. 22 {ib.). Bishop f A.d. 337. {Acta SS. Jan. ii. 63.) (12) Martyr in the days of the Mussulmans in Ethiopia, May 26. (Ludolf, Comm. p. 416.) [E. B. B.] LEOPARDUS, martyr at Rome; honoured at Aix-la-Chapelle from the time of Charle- magne, Sept. 30. {Acta SS. Sept. viii. 430.) [E. B. B.] LEOTHADIUS, bishop of Auch, f Oct. 23, A.D. 717 ? {Acta SS. Oct. x. 122.) [E. B. B.] LEPERS, LEPROSI. There are few notices of the treatment of lepers in the early church. It is probable the disease did not assume such dimensions as to call for special enactments. Ugolini, under the heading De Morbis Biblicis, has collected {Thesaurus, vol. xxx. 1544) several reasons why leprosy was less prevalent in the Christian than in the Jewish church. The council of Ancyra (A.D. 314) has a canon (c. 17) directed against tovs aKoyevcrayevovs Ka\ \eirpovs ouras ijroi XiirpaxTavTas; which may refer either to actual lepers, or may signify that those who polluted themselves with unnatural crimes contracted a moral leprosy. The council orders that their station shall be among the x^*- lxaC6ix€voi, inter hyemanies [Hiemantes]. In the Gallic church the bishops are directed by the 5th council of Orleans, A.D. 549 (c. 21), to take care that no lepers within their diocese are left destitute, but that they are supplied with food and raiment from the church funds. The 3rd council of Lyons, A.D. 583 (c. 6), gives a similar injunction, with the additi< n that the lepers are to be prohibited from wandering from one diocese to another. In some instances they must have been in danger of being cut oif from all church membership, for pope Gregory 11., a.d. 715-731 {Ep. xiii. ad Bonifac.), gives a formal sanction to the Holy Communion being administered to them, although not in company with others free from disease. Some special directions are also given by pope Zacharias, a.d. 741-752 {Ep. xii.) de regio morbo laborantibus ; the regius morbus in this instance has been held by some to signify leprosy. Martene {De Bit. Antiq. iii. 10) has printed from French rituals vari- ous specimens of the forms and services to be observed in the treatment of lepers, but they lie outside our period. [^. M.] LEPTIS, COUNCIL OF {Leptense Con- cilium), held A.D. 386, or thereabouts, at Leptis, in Africa, when nine canons contained in a synodi- cal letter of pope Siricius to the African bishops, were received. By the second of them it is or- dained that no single bishop may ordain another. (Mansi, iii. 670, and Supplem. ad Colet. i. 252, and see African Councils.) [E. S. Ff.] LERIDA, COUNCIL OF {Tlerdense con- cilium), held A.D. 546—not 524, as was once thought—at Lerida in Catalonia, and passed sixteen canons on discipline, to which eight bishops subscribed, the bishop of Lerida sub- scribing last, and after him one presbyter repre- senting a ninth. By canon 1, all who minister at the altar are commanded to abstain from, shedding of blood under pain of being suspended for two years, and excluded from promotion ever afterwards. By canon 8, no clerk may lay hands upon any slave or pupil of his who has taken sanctuary. By canon 10, those who re- fuse to leave church, when ordered out for mis- behaviour by the priest, are to be deemed con- tumacious and treated accordingly. By canon 14, the faithful may not communicate, nor so much as eat, with the rebaptized. Other canons are given to this council by Burchard: among them, one referring to the purgation of pope Leo III., which took place two and a half cen- turies afterwards (Mansi, viii. 609 sq. ; comp. Catalan, Cone. Hisp. iii. 172). [E. S. Ff.] LESSON. [Lection ; Lectionary.] LESTINES, COUNCIL OF {Liptinense Concilium), said to have been held at Liptines, or Lestines, in Hainault, a.d. 743, or according to Mansi, 745; described as one of the five councils under St. Boniface, but beset with as many difficulties as the rest. 1. All the four canons assigned to it reappear among Carloman’s capitularies, dated Liptines, A.D. 743 (Mansi, xi. Append. 105); indeed the first of them speaks of 63$