Leonard the Hermit
6 November -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Religious, page 494
According to an eleventh-century Life, Leonard was a sixth-
century Frankish nobleman who refused a bishopric to become
first a monk, then a hermit, at Noblac (now
Saint-Léonard) near Limoges. The miracles attributed
to him, both during his lifetime and after his death, caused
a widespread cultus throughout Europe and, in England alone,
over a hundred and seventy churches are dedicated to him.