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St. Leodegarius

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Feastday: October 2
Patron: of millers; invoked against blindness; eye disease; eye problems; sore eyes
Birth: 615
Death: 679

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Benedictine bishop and martyr. He was educated at Poitiers, France, and in 653 became abbot of St. Maxentius. When King Clovis II died, Leodegarius assisted the regent, Queen Bathildes, and became bishop of Autun in 659. Erchinoald, the mayor of the royal palace, had Leodegarius imprisoned, blinded, and murdered. Leodegarius is revered in France as St. Leger.

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