Saint
Leobinus of Chartres
Bishop of Chartres
A monk and abbot at Brou, later Bishop of Chartres, reposed around 556.
- Feast
- September 15old style September 28
- Reposed
- 5576th century
- Place
- Brou
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Saint Leobinus of Chartres (Lubin) was born near Poitiers in a peasant family, and he became Bishop of Chartres after being a hermit, a monk and abbot of Brou.
From his youth he lived as a hermit, then entered the monastery of Micy and was ordained priest. He was chosen abbot of Brou, and in the year 544 he was made Bishop of Chartres in the place of Etherius, with the consent of King Childebert I. He reposed around 556 or 557.
He is commemorated on 15 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.
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