Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic abbot in Calabria (c. 815 – c. 915)
Saint
Leoluca
Votive image of St. Leoluca
Abbot
Born
c. 815 Corleone, Sicily
Died
c. 915
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church[1]
Major shrine
San Leoluca Church, Corleone
Feast
1 March
Patronage
Corleone, Sicily; Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Leoluca, also Leone Luca, Leo Luke of Corleone, Saint Leoluca, or Luke of Sicily[1] (c. 815 – c. 915)[2] was the abbot and wonderworker of the monastery of Mount Mula in Calabria,[note 1] and a founder of Italo-Greek monasticism in southern Italy.[note 2] He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Born in the Sicilian town of Corleone, he died about a hundred years later, after eighty years of monastic life,[note 3] in Monteleone Calabro, now Vibo Valentia in Calabria. Today he is a patron saint of both towns, and his feast day is celebrated on 1 March.
In 2006 Leoluca's relics were found in the municipality of San Gregorio d'Ippona, about 2 km southeast of the city of Vibo Valentia.[8]
^(in Latin) Ottavio Gaetani. Vitae Sanctorum Siculorum ex antiquis Graecis Latinisque monumentis. Gesuiti : Preposto generale, Gesuiti : Collegio Romano. 1657.
^(in Italian)Parco nazionale del Pollino. Italian Wikipedia.
^Rosemary Morris. Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118. Cambridge University Press, 2003. p. 173
^Robert E. Sinkewicz. "Italo-Greek". In: Richard Barrie Dobson. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 (K-Z). Eds.: André Vauchez, Michael Lapidge. Transl: Adrian Walford. Routledge, 2000. p. 974.
^K. Lake. "The Greek Monasteries in South Italy I." J Theol Studies (1903) os-IV(15): 345-368 doi:10.1093/jts/os-IV.15.345. p. 364.
^Lynn White Jr. "The Byzantinization of Sicily." The American Historical Review. Vol. 42, No. 1 (Oct., 1936). p. 5.
^(in Italian) "Trovate le spoglie di San Leoluca." LA SICILIA. DOMENICA 10 DICEMBRE 2006.
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