Leo

Saint Leo, called Makelles and the Thracian, was emperor of Byzantium in the fifth century and reposed in 474. The Greek synaxarion commemorates him on 20 January (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) as a most pious emperor, and the English calendar calls him Leo I and a confessor.

According to tradition, in his time the robe of the Mother of God was placed in the church of Blachernae in Constantinople, a feast kept in the Greek calendar on 2 July, with the year 473.