Venerable
Leobald
Founder of Fleury Abbey on the Loire, reposed around 650.
- Feast
- August 8old style August 21
- Reposed
- 6507th century
- Place
- Fleury Abbey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Leobald (Leodebod, Leodebaldus) was abbot of Saint-Agnan of Orléans and the founder of Fleury Abbey, later called Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, near Orléans in France, in the seventh century. He reposed around 650.
He is commemorated on 8 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no account of his life.
Commemorated the same day August 8
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