Saint Eulogius of Cordoba

Memorial

• 11 March

Profile

Son of a senatorial family from Cordoba, Spain. Well educated. Priest. Head of an ecclesiastical school. Worked to comfort and support Christian martyrs and their survivors during Islamic persecutions in Moorish occupied Spain. Arrested several times for his faith, he wrote Exhortation to Martyrdom while during one of his imprisonments. Appointed to succeed the Archbishop of Toledo, Spain, but was never consecrated. Imprisoned after he gave shelter to Saint Leocritia of Cordoba, he preached the Gospel in court, then in front of the king‘s counsel. Martyr.

Died

• scourged and beheaded 11 March 859 at Cordoba, Spain

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• carpenters
• coppersmiths

Writings

• Apologia
• Exhortation to Martyrdom
• Memorial of the Saints

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Eulogius of Cordoba”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 March 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-eulogius-of-cordoba/>