Saint Leobon of Saint-Étienne-de-Fursac

He gave a striking example of this last virtue. One night, some debauched youths sent a woman of ill repute into his cell to corrupt him; then, before the eyes of this courtesan, the Saint lay down on burning coals and begged her to do the same. Now, the fire did him no harm: such a miracle frightened this unfortunate woman, who hastened to flee. Touched by this prodigy, the young men themselves came to implore a pardon, which he generously granted them. Nevertheless, Léobon did not believe he should remain any longer in that place; he left it to go and settle in Salagnac (Dordogne), where h e found Salagnac Place of final retreat, death, and the primary center of the saint's cult. a suitable retreat and continued his life of penance and mortification.

It was especially after the death of Léobon that God manifested his holiness through miracles: the most famous were those that took place in 994. At that time, a pestilential fire, known by the name of mal des ardents, was wreaking cruel havoc throughout Aquitaine. As all the resources of art were powerless against this strange disease, a solemn supplication was ordered throughout the diocese of Limoges, and everywhere the relics of the Saints were carried in procession. The inhabitants of Salagnac therefore took the reliquary of Saint Léobon from its retreat , opened it, saint Léobon 5th-century hermit of Limousin, known for his asceticism and miracles against ergotism. and, taking the bones contained within, they soaked them in wine which the sick then drank and which healed them. While the holy body was being carried to Limoges, a young man ran from La Jonchère (Haute-Vienne, arrondissement of Limoges, canton of Laurière) to meet it and was publicly healed of the pestilential fire, near Ambazac Ambazac Site of a public miraculous healing. .

Saint Léobon is the patron of Salag Salagnac Place of final retreat, death, and the primary center of the saint's cult. nac, where his head was still to be seen in 1405, and where he is invoked to be cured of acute fevers. He is also one of the patrons of the church of Ladignac (Haute-Vienne), and he had a chapel in that of Saint-Hilaire-Lastours (arrondissement of Saint-Yrieix) as well as in the cathedral of Limoges. There was formerly, on the day of his feast, a great gathering of people, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and a sermon, in the church of La Brugère, near Limoges, where he was honored as a secondary patron of this small parish.

Propre de Limoges; Sainte d u Limousin, by Labiche Labiche de Steignefort Author of the work 'Sainte du Limousin', source of the biography. de Steignefort.