Saint Leodegarius
![[Saint Leodegarius]](saintl59.jpg "illustration of Saint Leodegarius, from the rood-screen, Ashton, Devon, England; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Leodegar
Leger
- Memorial
- 2 October
- Profile
- Son of the nobles Bobilo and Saint Sigrada.
Brother of Saint Warinus.
Raised in the court of King Clotaire II.
Studied in Poitiers under the guidance of his uncle, the bishop.
Deacon at Poitiers, working in diocesan administration.
Priest.
Monk at Maxentius Abbey in 650.
Abbot in 651, a position he held for six years during which he placed the abbey under the Benedictine Rule.
Advisor to Queen Saint Bathild, and tutor to her children, in 656.
Reforming bishop of Autun in 663.
Fought Manichaeism, reformed the secular clergy, enforced discipline in religious houses, adopted the Creed of Saint Athanasius, and stressed the administration of the sacraments, especially baptism.
His work, and his support of Childeric over Ebroin for the throne, incurred the anger of many powerful entrenched rulers and entities.
Exiled to Luxeuil in 675, but returned to Autun at the request of Theodoric III after the death of Childeric.
When the city was attacked, Leodegarius arranged a surrender to avoid the Autun's destruction.
He fell into the hands of Ebroin, was blinded, his lips cut off, and his tongue pulled out.
Some time later this same Ebroin accused him of instigating the murder of Childeric, had him arrested, imprisoned for two years at Fecamp monastery in Normandy, regularly tortured, crippled, and finally executed.
- Born
- c.616
- Died
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murdered in 678 in the woods near Sarcing, Somme, France;
relics translated to the abbey of Saint Maxentius in 782;
relics later translated to Rennes, and then to Ebreuil which was renamed Saint-Leger;
later translated to the cathedral of Autun and to Soissons
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Representation
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man having his eyes bored out with a gimlet
bishop holding a gimlet
bishop holding a hook with two prongs
- Patronage
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against blindness
against eye disease
against eye problems
against sore eyes
blind people
eyes
millers
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
Patron Saints of English Church
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