Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet ; also known as Lienard , Linhart , Lenart , Leonhard , Léonard , Leonardo , Annard ; died 559) is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat , in Haute-Vienne , in the Limousin region of France . He was converted to Christianity along with the king, at Christmas 496. Leonard became a hermit in the forest of Limousin , where he gathered a number of followers. Leonard or Lienard became one of the most venerated saints of the late Middle Ages. His intercession was credited with miracles for the release of prisoners, women in labour and the diseases of cattle.
33-739: San Leonardo may refer to: Leonard of Noblac (died 559), Frankish saint Places in Italy [ edit ] San Leonardo, Friuli , a comune in Friuli Venezia Giulia San Leonardo, a former quarter of Milan, now within Gallaratese San Leonardo (Milan Metro) , a railway station San Leonardo in Passiria or St. Leonhard in Passeier,
66-650: A comune in South Tyrol Churches [ edit ] San Leonardo, Borgomanero , Piedmont San Leonardo, Carmignano , Tuscany San Leonardo, Matera , Basilicata San Leonardo, Tapigliano , Piedmont San Leonardo al Lago, Monteriggioni , Tuscany San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio ad Acilia , Rome San Leonardo in Arcetri , Florence San Leonardo in Treponzio , Tuscany Other places [ edit ] San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija ,
99-412: A patron saint , then, declining the offer of a bishopric— a prerogative of Merovingian nobles— he entered the monastery at Micy near Orléans , under the direction of Saint Mesmin and Saint Lie . Then, according to his legend, Leonard became a hermit in the forest of Limousin , where he gathered a number of followers. He was active as a preacher throughout Aquitaine. Through his prayers
132-607: A charismatic leader of the First Crusade , subsequently visited the Abbey of Noblac, where he made an offering in gratitude for his release. Bishop Walram of Naumburg , who was present during Bohemond's visit, wrote up a new life of Leonard, including posthumous miracles like Bohemond's. Bohemond's example inspired many similar gifts, enabling the construction of the Romanesque church and its prominent landmark belltower. About
165-737: A municipality in the Philippines San Leonardo de Yagüe , a town and municipality in Soria, Spain San Leonardo de Alba de Tormes , a former monastery in Salamanca, Spain See also [ edit ] Saint Leonard (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title San Leonardo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
198-696: Is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 6 November . Various places refer to this saint. Notable among these is the town of St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex , England . Sussex is also home to St Leonard's Forest . This part of England has a significant number of dedications to St Leonard. Some of the best-known are the parish church of St Leonard in Hythe, Kent , with its famous ossuary and St. Leonard's, Shoreditch in London. There
231-550: Is Saxon in origin but it was heavily rebuilt in 1849 in the Victorian gothic revival style by architect Henry Hakewill . Clewer, Berkshire is the site of St.Leonard's House (formerly Sophia Lodge ) & now the headquarters of Legoland Windsor, being formerly the HQ of Billy Smart's Windsor Safari Park. Several German churches are dedicated to the saint, including St. Leonhard, Frankfurt . In Italy almost 225 places are dedicated to
264-518: Is a cluster of dedications in the West Midlands region , including the original parish churches of Bridgnorth (now a redundant church and used for community purposes) and Bilston , as well as White Ladies Priory , a ruined Augustinian house. The largest hospital in northern mediaeval England was an Augustinian foundation dedicated to St. Leonard, in York ; its partial ruins are to be found in
297-568: Is dedicated to St Leonard. The saint's day is commemorated every 6 November (or the closest Sunday). This is the only parish dedicated to St Leonard in the country. Micy Micy Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy ( French : Abbaye Saint-Mesmin de Micy ), sometimes referred to as Micy , was a Benedictine abbey near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret , located on
330-544: Is regarded as the traditional patron of farmers. Many Bavarian communities carry out traditional processions or rides on his feast day; community members wear traditional costume, usually dirndls for the women and Lederhosen for the men. Until the Secularisation , Inchenhofen became a major pilgrimage site for the cult of St. Leonard, promoted by the Cistercian monks of nearby Fürstenfeld Abbey . Leonard
363-598: The Museum Gardens although undercroft remains lie some hundred yards away and are used as a bar under the York Theatre Royal. In Newton Abbot , Devon, there is both a chapel of ease dedicated to St Leonard, first recorded in 1350, and a replacement church built in 1834. The chapel was near the bridewell (prison). There is also a church dedicated to St Leonard in Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; the church
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#1732779475184396-471: The romance that accrued to his name, recorded in an 11th-century vita , Leonard was a Frankish noble in the court of Clovis I , founder of the Merovingian dynasty. Saint Remigius , Bishop of Reims was his godfather. As a disciple of Remigius, he was granted the prerogative to visit prisons and free anyone held there. Leonard secured the release of a number of prisoners, for whom he has become
429-543: The 13th century, based on forges and foundries (perhaps the origin of the saint's association with chains) and leatherworking, with communal consuls who were in charge of defending its rights and privileges – its " liberties " in the medieval sense. A history of the commune, written by the local antiquary and historian of the Limousin, Louis Guibert in 1890, was reissued in 1992. In the Alpine regions of Bavaria , St Leonard
462-518: The Elder died on December 15, 520 and was buried in the current cave of the dragon of Béraire (located at La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin ), a natural cavity, on the opposite bank, where he liked to come to collect himself. Mesmin the Younger was the fifth abbot. He died around 593. Dagobert I and Thierry III each made donations to the abbey. During the reign of the latter, around 675, the bodies of Mesmin
495-458: The Elder, Theodemir and Mesmin the Younger were transported to an oratory inside Orléans. The monks of Micy contributed much to the civilization of the Orléans region; they cleared and drained the lands and taught the semi-barbarous inhabitants the worth and dignity of agricultural work. From Micy Abbey, monastic life spread within and around the diocese of Orleans . Among the monks who lived in
528-506: The West by John Cassian and Martin of Tours . In 788, Charlemagne appointed the Bishop of Orléans , Theodulf , as abbot of Fleury-Saint-Benoît, abbot of Micy, abbot of Saint-Aignan of Orleans and of Saint-Liphard of Meung-sur-Loire. Sacked and abandoned during the wars of the eighth century, Micy was refounded by Théodulf, who was not a regular abbot of Micy but a beneficiary abbot. Noting
561-584: The abbey were criticized for their conduct. So the abbot decided to expel them from the abbey and to put in their place monks from the congregation of reformed Cistercians, called Feuillants . This congregation had been created in 1583 at the Feuillants monastery in Toulouse. He obtained the approval of Pope Paul V after being in Rome in 1607 when he was appointed cardinal. The pope sent a brief to this effect to
594-557: The bishop of Orleans, Gabriel de L'Aubespine , on October 12, 1607. After a period of contestation by the Benedictine monks of the abbey who were ordered to leave, the Feuillants were solemnly installed on December 10, 1608. The abbey was suppressed during the French Revolution and the buildings demolished. The last abbot of Micy, Chapt de Rastignac, was one of the victims of the " September Massacres ", at Paris, 1792, in
627-422: The labours of the fields, that they might have the means to live an honest life. Although there is no previous mention of Leonard either in literature, liturgy or in church dedications, in the 12th century his cult rapidly spread, at first through Frankish lands, following the release of Bohemond I of Antioch in 1103 from a Danishmend prison, which he attributed to the intercession of St. Leonard. Bohemond,
660-423: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Leonardo&oldid=1075130723 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leonard of Noblac According to
693-575: The monastery and who are registered in its menologe since the beginning of the establishment, Jean Mabillon noted twenty-six of them recognized as saints by the Church. Besides Euspicius and Mesmin , the first and second abbots, there were: Agilus , Viscount of Orléans, was a protector of Micy. In the early days, the rule followed was that of the Eastern hermits observed by the followers of St. Anthony and St. Basil . These rules had been brought to
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#1732779475184726-491: The most venerated saints of the late Middle Ages. His intercession was credited with miracles for the release of prisoners, women in labour and the diseases of cattle. His feast day is 6 November, when he is honoured with a festival at Bad Tölz , Bavaria . He is honoured by the parish of Kirkop , Malta , on the third Sunday of every August. The growing tide of pilgrims passing on their way to Santiago inspired romances to publicize more than one locally venerated saint along
759-427: The pilgrim routes. Saint Martial is another example of a saint of the Limousin whose dramatic vita helped attract pilgrims to his shrine. The village below the shrine of Saint Leonard, perched on its hilltop site, had its origins in the 11th century, when under the jurisdiction of the château of Noblac it was first encircled with walls, a necessity of life in the region. It developed as a small center of commerce in
792-500: The prison of L'Abbaye. In 1939, the Carmel of Orléans, founded in 1617, was transferred to 18, rue Claude Joliot, on the former site of the abbey of Micy. In Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin, the cross of Micy remains, a cross 10 meters high from the base to the top, which was built in 1858 with the last stones of the remains of the abbey. It is located in the very enclosure of the outbuildings of the former monastery. Its plans were drawn and
825-827: The queen of the Franks safely bore a male child, and in recompense Leonard was given royal lands at Noblac, 21 km (13 mi) from Limoges. It is likely that the toponym was derived from the Latin family name Nobilius and the common Celtic element -ac, simply denoting a place. There he founded the abbey of Noblac, around which a village grew, named in his honour Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat . According to legend, prisoners who invoked Leonard from their cells saw their chains break before their eyes. Many came to him afterwards, bringing their heavy chains and irons to offer them in homage. A considerable number remained with him, and he often gave them part of his vast forest to clear and make ready for
858-720: The saint, equally distributed in the North (in Friuli , there is the oldest Italian church dedicated to this saint, 774) as well as in the South where the shrine was introduced by the Normans . The shrine can be found even in Italian islands such as Sicily , Sardinia , Ischia , Procida . In September 2004, a national meeting of the Italian parish churches dedicated to the Saint took place in
891-808: The same time Noblac was becoming a stage on the pilgrimage route that led to Santiago de Compostela . Leonard's cult spread through all of Western Europe: in England, with its cultural connections to the region, no fewer than 177 churches are dedicated to him. Leonard was venerated in Scotland, England, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, particularly in Bavaria, and also in Bohemia, Poland, and elsewhere. Pilgrims and patronage flowed to Saint-Leonard de Noblac. Leonard or Lienard became one of
924-470: The small village of Panza d'Ischia where a small chapel of St. Leonard was transformed into a church in 1536. The Mediterranean nation of Malta contains a single parish dedicated to this saint, in the town of Kirkop ; the parish church was founded on 29 May 1592. The saint is known as San Anard Abbati in Maltese . In Portugal the parish and church (late 12th century) of Atouguia da Baleia (Peniche)
957-494: The state of the abbey, he undertook to improve it by introducing the Benedictine rule . To introduce the rule, he asked Benedict of Aniane for monks to teach it. Twelve monks under the leadership of a superior, were sent to the abbey of Micy. François III de La Rochefoucauld , Bishop of Clermont , received the abbey of Micy in 1598. He undertook to complete the restoration of the buildings in 1606. The Benedictine monks of
990-486: The territory of the present commune of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin . Since 1939 it has hosted a community of Carmelites. According to the Life of Saint Maximin written in the 9th century, Euspicius , archpriest of Verdun, went to meet Clovis I who had come to the city to punish it for having revolted. Euspicius having obtained the royal pardon, the king attached himself to him as well as his nephew Mesmin . In 508, Euspicius
1023-535: The work directed by Alexandre Collin, the engineer who was responsible for the rehabilitation of the Dragon cave of Béraire . The base of the cross bears the following inscription: "I stand on the ruins of the monastery of Micy founded under Clovis I, Christian, king of the Franks. In the year of the Lord 1858, Pius IX being supreme pontiff, Napoleon III emperor. Félix Dupanloup, bishop of Orléans, dedicated this monument to
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1056-402: Was built by the monks inside an enclosure, including cells of cenobites and two large buildings. The church was dedicated to Saint Stephen. Nothing remains of these buildings. Euspicius died on June 10, 510 and was buried in Orléans next to Saint Aignan in the church of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs, which became the basilica of Saint Aignan. Mesmin then took over the direction of the monastery. Mesmin
1089-507: Was looking for a place of retreat and found an unoccupied royal villa called Micy near Orleans, at the confluence of the Loire and Loiret rivers. He received the domain of Micy from Clovis in order to establish a monastery there. The king added other domains and a piece of land inside the walls of Orléans, called Alleu de Saint-Mesmin, to serve as a refuge in case of troubles. The donation diplomas attributed to Clovis are forgeries. The monastery
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