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Leontius, hegumen of the monastery of Nea in Jerusalem. (Pratum Spirituale, nr. 61) He was 45 years in the church of
Nea. He is called 'Leontius of Cilicia'.
Leontius, martyr at Tripoli (Phoenicia). His feast is on June 18. Leontius was a disciple of the monk and martyr
Publius. (Feast of Publius is on June 18). Leontius was martyred under Emperor Vespasian (69-79). Two servants, with
the name Hypatus and Theodoulos, were ordered to arrest Leontius. But they converted during the process and were
beheaded by the governor Adrianus. The commemoration of Hypatus and Theodoulos is on June 18.
Leontius, St. He is mentioned by the Greek Synaxaries, together with Anthimus and Euprepius, and on the same date
(Oct 17) as Cosmas and Damian. Leontius (Leon) was, with Anthimus and Euprepius, one of the unmercenary saints of
Arabia. Anthimus suffered martyrdom during the Diocletian persecution (285-313).
Leontius of Cilicia, priest and hegumen at the Church Nea in Jerusalem.
Leontius' Church. The 'Commemoratorium de casis Dei' of 808 mentions: in the valley of Josaphat in St. Leontius. -
Bernard the Monk in his Itinerarium (of 870) mentions: in the valley of Josaphat is a church of St. Leontius, where the
Lord is expected to return for the judgment.
Leontius of Neapolis. He has written the life of Symeon Salus (the Fool) (BHG, 1677), The feast of Symeon Salus in
on July 21.
Leontius II, Greek-Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem from 1170 to 1190. He was born in Tiberioupolis. He joined the
monastic life in Constantinople; later he went to Patmos, to Cyprus and to Crete. He was consecrated Patriarch of
Jerusalem in 1170. Later he became the hegumen (hegumenos, superior, leader) of the monastery of St. John the
Theologian in Patmos. He died in 1190.
Leopard Belluci. He was born in 1881 at Osimo (Italy); in 1918 he became a missionary in the Custody. He worked in
the Franciscan College of Aleppo. On a journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, he was murdered by Arabs in the railwaystation
of Kherbet Ghazale, Syria, on Aug 20, 1920.
Leopold of Austria. As a crusader he came to Acre in 1217, together with Andrew, king of Hungary.
Leopold, Duke of Brabant (the later King Leopold II of Belgium, 1865-1909). He was born at Brussel in 1835. He
married in 1853 the archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria. He visited in 1854 Italy, Austria, Egypt, the Near East. In
1855 he was in the Holy Land. He returned via Greece, Sicily and the Pontifical States. Leopold, together with his wife,
was in 1855 the first European traveller to visit publicly the Dome of the Rock and El Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. It
was on Holy Saturday, April 7. In 1869 the Duke of Brabant went to Constantinople to meet the Sultan. He returned
over Greece. He went again to Egypt, where the digging of the Canal of Suez made on him a deep impression.
(Compare Mislin)
Lepers, healed by Jesus. Ten lepers were healed by Jesus (Luke 17, 11-19) 'as He passed through the midst of Samaria
and Galilee'. One was a Samaritan. Only he returned and gave glory to God. According to a tradition, it was at
Engannin (now Jenin) that Jesus healed the ten lepers. Near Jenin is the village of Burkin, which claims the honour of
the miracle. Burkin is on the left side of the way Jenin to Haifa.
Lequeux M. of the~French Consulate. He opened on Nov 1, 1851 the French Hospital (of St. Louis), north of the walls.
Patriarch Valerga took it over in 1852 with the help of the French Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. - Hôpital St.
Louis in Jaffa was opened in 1877; the Hôpital Français in Nazareth in 1887.
Lercaro, Cardinal, archbishop of Bologna. Visited Jerusalem July 4, 1964.
Lesseps (de) Ferdinand. (1805-1894). This French engineer visited Jerusalem in 1861. He came from his work at the
digging of the Suez-canal, he had passed the desert of E[ Arish in a four-wheeled carriage drawn by camels. Then they
had continued by dromedary and afterwards by horses to Jerusalem. This visit was between January and March 1861
(Mrs Finn, Reminiscences p. 227). Lesseps passed again in Jerusalem in 1866. He arrived there on March 25, 1866; he
was at the Casa Nova of the Franciscans in Jerusalem. On April 1, 1886 he departed for Nazareth. He had as guide the
Belgian lay brother, Liévin of Hamme, for his trip to Nazareth.