Venerable Martyr
Leovigild and Christopher
Monks slain for Christ at Córdoba in 852.
Life
Leovigild and Christopher were monk-martyrs of Córdoba in Spain. Leovigild was a monk and pastor in Córdoba, and Christopher was a monk of the monastery of Saint Martin of La Rojana near the city. Both were martyred in the year 852 under the emir Abderrahman II. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
Their commemoration falls on 19 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 1 September of the civil calendar.
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