Saint Leobinus () (died 14 March 557) was a

hermit A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions. Description In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Chr ...

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...

, and

bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

. Born in a

peasant A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasan ...

family, he became a hermit and a monk of

Micy Abbey Micy Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy (), sometimes referred to as Micy, was a Rule of Saint Benedict, Benedictine abbey near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret (river), Loiret, located on the territory of the present c ...

before being ordained a priest. He was then elected abbot of Brou and in 544, became

Bishop of Chartres The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the ...

, succeeding Etherius with the consent of king

Childebert I Childebert I ( 496 – 13 December 558) was a Frankish King of the Merovingian dynasty, as third of the four sons of Clovis I who shared the kingdom of the Franks upon their father's death in 511. He was one of the sons of Saint Clo ...

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Saints of March 14: Leobinus

Saint Lubin
556 deaths 6th-century Frankish saints Bishops of Chartres French hermits Year of birth unknown {{France-saint-stub