Leander of Seville
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Leander of Seville (Spanish: San Leandro de Sevilla;
Life
Leander, Isidore and their siblings belonged to an elite family of
The family moved to Seville around 554. The children's subsequent public careers reflect their distinguished origin: Leander and Isidore both became bishops of
There was less Visigothic persecution of Chalcedonians than legend and hagiography have painted.[
Leander, enjoying an elite position in the secure surroundings of tolerated Chalcedonian Christian culture in Seville, became, around 576, a
Exiled by Liuvigild, as his biographies express it, when the rebellion failed, he withdrew to Byzantium – perhaps quite hastily – from 579 to 582. It is possible, but not proven, that he sought to rouse the
Leander introduced the recitation of the Nicene Creed at Mass, as a way to help reinforce the faith of his people against Arianism.[5] In 589, he convoked the Third Council of Toledo, where Visigothic Hispania abjured Arianism. Leander delivered the triumphant closing sermon which his brother Isidore entitled Homilia de triumpho ecclesiae ob conversionem Gothorum ("a homily upon the triumph of the Church and the conversion of the Goths"). On his return from this council, Leander convened a synod in his metropolitan city of Seville (Conc. Hisp., I), and never afterwards ceased his efforts to consolidate the work of extirpating the remains of Arianism, in which his brother and successor St. Isidore was to follow him.
Works
Only two works remain of this writer: De institutione virginum et contemptu mundi (a monastic rule composed for his sister) and Homilia de triumpho ecclesiæ ob conversionem Gothorum (P.L, LXXII). St. Isidore wrote of his brother: "This man of suave eloquence and eminent talent shone as brightly by his virtues as by his doctrine. By his faith and zeal the Gothic people have been converted from Arianism to the Catholic faith" (De script. eccles., xxviii).
Legacy
The city of
The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches recognise feast days for Leander on both 27 February and 13 March for observance in particular circumstances.[6][7][8][9] In the Spanish national liturgical calendar, the feast day is commemorated on 13 November.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Liturgical Calendar — Spain (2023)". www.gcatholic.org.
- ^ a b c Suau, Pierre. "St. Leander of Seville." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 27 November 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Κοίμηση Ἁγίου Λεάνδρου Ἐπισκόπου Σεβίλλης: 13 ΜΑΡΤΙΟΥ" [Dormition of Saint Leandro, Bishop of Seville: March 13], ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ [Great Synaxaristes] (in Greek)
- ^ "St. Leander of Seville", FaithND
- ^ "Saint Leander of Seville", Franciscan Media
- ISBN 88-209-7210-7)
- ^ "Orthodox Europe: Spain". www.orthodoxengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-06.
- ^ "Saint Leander of Seville". Franciscan Media. 13 March 2022.
- ^ Baring-Gould, Sabine (1897). "S. Leander, B. of Hispala". The Lives of the Saints. Vol. 2: February. London: J. C. Nimmo. pp. 445−447.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Leander of Seville". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.