Saint Leo of Rouen

Memorial

• 1 March

Profile

Raised in a pious family. Bishop of Rouen, France. Evangelist in Navarre and the Basque regions. Martyred by Saracen pirates. Legend says that a spring of water sprang up where he died, and that his body carried his severed head back to the place of his last sermon before finally collapsing.

Born

• c.856 at Carentan, Normandy, France

Died

• beheaded c.900 near Bayonne, France

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Bayonne, France

Representation

• bishop holding his severed head in his hands

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Sabine Baring Gould
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Leo of Rouen”. Saints.SQPN.com. 25 February 2010. Web. 18 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-leo-of-rouen/>