A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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July 23
July 23
Bishop
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 54 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Leborius was bishop of Sens in Gaul, and a friend of S. Martin, who buried him. This is really all that is known of this saint. His relics were translated to Paderborn in 836.
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S. Leborius was bishop of Sens in Gaul [roughly modern France and Belgium], and a friend of S. Martin [St. Martin of Tours (d. 397), soldier turned bishop], who buried him. This is really all that is known of this saint. His relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] were translated to Paderborn in 836. He is invoked against gravel and the stone, and is represented holding calculi on a book in his hand.
Feast: July 23
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Image: Paderborner Dom Dreifaltigkeitskapelle Liborius.jpg · ludger1961 · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
Image: ludger1961, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
