The Saint of the day 6 November is San Leonardo di Limoges, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.
San Leonardo di Limoges
Leonardo di Noblac, also known as San Leonardo di Noblat or Noblet or Limoges, was born in about 496 in Gaul, from frank parents of a noble family.
The birth took place in the castle of Vandome located in the village of Corroi in Orleans, when Emperor Anastasius was.
As a noble Franco he should have followed his military career but he preferred to become a disciple of San Remigio, the then archbishop of Reims, considered the great evangelizer of the Franks, the one who had managed to convert and baptize King Clovis himself.
Once the king was converted, the bishop had been granted permission to ask that every prisoner he met could be released.
Leonardo too, pervaded by a great desire for charity, obtained the same favor from the sovereign, managing to free in this way numerous prisoners, who had remained innocent victims of the barbaric wars that characterized that era.
After refusing the position of Bishop that King Clodoveo had proposed to him, he decided to retire to hermit life at first in Micy, later in Limoges.
Upon learning of his sanctity, the king asked for his intervention when the queen, while straying through those places, was surprised by the birth pangs.
Leonardo's intervention managed to make the pain of the queen who was able to bring her baby into the world more bearable.
King Clodoveo was very grateful for this gesture and, as a sign of thanks, he granted Leonardo all the part of the forest that he would be able to trace in one day by advancing on the back of a donkey.
In the woods Leonardo built a dedicated oratory of the Madonna, where he also had an altar built in honor of his master San Remigio, who had died for some time.
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A devotional legend says that he also made a hole in the ground that miraculously filled with water, originating a well that was called "nobiliacum", to remember the king's donation.
Tradition has it that the saint died on November 6 in an unspecified year around the middle of the sixth century.
The town of Noblat, which formed around the monastery, also took its name from the pit nobiliacum.
The monastery, containing Leonardo's mortal remains, soon became a popular pilgrimage site.
The cult spread throughout Europe from the ninth century, while the crusades were underway.
Noblac also became one of the stages of the journey towards Santiago de Compostela, thus assuming the role of a pilgrimage destination very popular with the faithful who traveled along that itinerary.
His veneration spread also in Italy, where his popularity expanded thanks also to the contribution of the Normans who exported the cult to Sicily.
San Leonardo is frequently represented with chains, given its particular protection of the imprisoned unjustly.
In addition to being the patron saint of prisoners, it is also the patron saint of manufacturers of chains, buckles, clasps and the like.
His intercession is invoked for difficult parts, children's diseases, livestock diseases, headaches, hail, bandits and for those suffering from obesity.
Other saints and celebrations on 6 November
- Saints Callinicus and companions
- Blessed Cristina of Stommeln
- San Felice di Genova
- San Felice di Toniza
- Sant ’Iltuto (Iltud Farchog)
- San Melanio
- San Protasio of Lausanne
- San Severo of Barcelona
- Santo Stefano d'Apt
- San Teobaldo di Dorat
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