Saint Leocadia of Toledo

Also known as

• Locaie of Toledo

Memorial

• 9 December

Profile

Slave. Beaten and imprisoned for refusing to denounce her faith during the Diocletian persecutions. Scheduled for torture and either apostasy or martyrdom, she learned of the abuse being suffered by the 13 year old Saint Eulalia of Merida. Leocadia prayed for God to remove her from a world where such evil occurred; she died soon after, of no particular cause, without being touched by her torturers. Ancient and popular cultus developed in Toledo, Spain.

Died

• c.303 at Toledo, Spain of (super) natural causes
• relics translated 26 April 1589

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Toledo, Spain, city of
• Toledo, Spain, archdiocese of

Representation

• woman holding a tower, indicating she died in prison
• woman holding a cross and palm

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Diocese of Toledo
• Heiligen 3s
• Kirken i Norge
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Leocadia of Toledo”. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 December 2012. Web. 20 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-leocadia-of-toledo/>