Leobonus of Salagnac

Saint Leobonus of Salagnac, a venerable father, was a hermit in the 6th century in the Limousin (today Creuse) and is recognized as a saint in the Western Church. He is remembered on 13 October.

He was born at the end of the 5th century at Saint-⁠Étienne-⁠de-⁠Fursac, of Christian parents, who put him under the protection of Saint Rufina, patroness of the place. A devout child, he loved solitude and prayer. He founded a hermitage near Fursac, on a wooded hill on the bank of the Gartempe, where he divided his time between prayer and work in the fields to earn his food, and went regularly to church for the Liturgy. The inhabitants still show a stone in the shape of a seat, called the stone of Saint Leobonus, where he is said to have loved to pray.

His life was told by Abbé Louis Dubreuil.