Saint Leocadia

Also known as: Locaie
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. 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 in Toledo.
Died: c.303 at Toledo, Spain of (super) natural causes
relics translated 26 April 1589
Patronage: Toledo, Spain
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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