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
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Lives of the Saints, by Sabine Baring Gould
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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