Saint Leolucas
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- Also known as
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Leo Luke
Leoluca
- Memorial
- 1 March
- Profile
- Born to a wealthy and pious family.
Orphaned at an early age he devoted himself to managing the estate and supervising the heads.
In the solitude of the fields, he realized he had a call to religious life.
He sold his estate, converted his assets to cash, gave the money to the poor, and became a Basilian monk at the San Filippo d' Agira monastery in province of Enna.
Monk in Calabria.
Pilgrim to Rome where he made a special point to visit the tombs of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Abbot of a Basilian monastery of Corleone, Sicily.
Lived 80 years as a monk.
Leolucas' intervention is credited with saving the city of Corleone during the plague outbreak of 1575.
The apparition of Leolucas and Saint Anthony prevented a Bourbon invasion of Corleone on 27 May 1860.
- Born
- c.815-818 at Corleone, Sicily
- Died
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c.915 of natural causes
miracles are reported at his tomb.
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Corleone, Sicily
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
Enrosadira [italiano]
Famiglia Grifasi [italiano]
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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