Member of a family of Cartagena, Leander was born around the year 549. Took part in the conversion to Catholicism of saint Hermenegild, and after his brother Recaredo, achieving with this the Catholic unity of the nation. He was Archbishop of Seville and presided at the third Council of Toledo (589 year). His influence was decisive in the development and subsequent splendor of the Church. He died about the year 600, and his body was moved to Seville Cathedral.
Celebrate today: Leandra, Leandro.
View moreCommemoration of Saints tangle and Cira, Virgin, who lived in a narrow and closed place homeless, in Berea, in Syria, receiving the necessary food through a window and keeping silent (s. V).
Commemoration of Saints tangle and Cira, Virgin, who lived in a narrow and closed place homeless, in Berea, in Syria, receiving the necessary food through a window and keeping silent (s. V).
In Worchester, England, Osvaldo St. Oswald (Aswaldo), Bishop, who was the first Canon and later monk, presided over the headquarters of Worchester and York, introduced in many monasteries the rule of Saint Benedict, being a benign, joyful and learned teacher.