Leopold
Life and witness
In Austria, of St. Leopold, marquis of the same province, who was canonized for a saint by pope Innocent the Eighth.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 13, November, Pt. 1 · S. Leopold IV., Margrave of Austria ; a.d. 1x36.
S. Leopold IV., Margrave of Austria ; a.d. 1x36.
B. Albertus Magnus, A bp. of Ratisbon ; a.d. t*8o.1 S. Gertrude, V.Abss. of Heldelf in Saxony ; a.d. 1334.
SS. GURIAS, SAMONAS, AND ABIBUS, MM.
(a.d. 299.)
[Modem Roman Martyrology. Greek Menaea and Menologies on the same day. Authority : — An Oration by Arethas, B. of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Also two Orations by James, B. of Sarug, in Assemani, Bib. Orient, i. p. 329, and Metaphrastes.]
N the persecution of Diocletian, Antoninus, governor of Edessa, arrested Gurias and Samo- nas, two Christians of that city, and thrust them into prison. On their refusal to sacrifice to the gods, he wrote to Diocletian to know what he had better do. The emperor ordered Musonius, prefect of Antioch, to go to Edessa, and try the glorious confessors of Jesus Christ. Musonius accordingly went thither, and Gurias and Samonas were brought before him. As they refused to bum incense to Jupiter, he had each suspended by one hand, with a stone
1 Only in the Dominican Martyrology.
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Biographical overview
Saint Leopold may refer to: Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (1073 – 1136), patron saint of Austria Leopold Mandić (1866 - 1942), Croat-born saint Leopoldo da Gaiche Saint Leopold Church (Donaufeld), Vienna, Austria
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Kahlembergae, prope Vindobonam, in Austria, sancti Leopoldi, ejusdem provinciae Austriae Marchionis, quem Innocentius Papa Octavus in Sanctorum numerum adscripsit. Sextodecimo Kalendas