- LABANninth archbishop of Elusa, presen' at the fourth council of Paris, in A.D. 573, and represented at the second of Macon,
- LABDACUSa Persian with whom Terbinthus disputed concerning dualism. (Epiph. Haer- lxvi. 3.) (G, T. S.]
- LABES[HysTeremMa.]
- LABUone of the chief citizens of Edessa who embraced Christianity after the example of Sharbil in the reign of Trajan. (Cure
- LABUBNAa royal scribe or historiographer of Edessa in the reign of Abgar, at whose command he entered in the records the work e
- LABYOLUS(Laziotus, Laysouus, LayBLINUS, UByouvus, UBELINUS), twelfth bishop of Strasbourg, between Magnebertus, and Gondoaldus,
- LACERIANUSbishop. [LASERIAN.] LACHINUS, Irish saint.
- LACHNINUS(Lacunay), Irish saint, contemporary with St. Declan, and having his celf near Lismore, co. Waterford (Ussher, Brit. Ecc
- LACHTAN(1) (Lacran, Lacrean), pupil and successor of St. Molua in the abbacy at Clonfert-mulloe, Queen's County (Vit. S. Dag. c
- LACTANTIUS(1), LUCIUS CAELIUS (or CAECILIUS) FIRMIANUS, a well-known Christian apologist of the beginning of the 4th century: "Rhe
- LADEMUNDa pre-historic abbat of Glastonbury, standing fourth in the list given by William of Malmesbury (Antt. Glaston. ed. Gale
- LADOCA, STthe patron saint of the church of Ladock, near Truro in Cornwall. He was probably Irish, W.C. Borlase however (The Age o
- LAEBHAN(Laopnan, Lepan, Lipan, LOEBHAN), smith to St. Patrick (Zour Mast. A.D. 448), and probably the founder of DomnachLoebhai
- LAEGHAIRE(1), of Dun, perhaps Down-patrick in Ulster. He is given among the sons of Trichem and brothers of Dicuu (Mart. Doneg. b
- LAELIUSdeacon of Emerita (Merida) in Spain, A.D. 254, joined in the letter of FeLrx of Saragossa. (Cyp. Zp. 67.) [E. W. B.]
- LAETAdaughter-in-law of Paula, the friend of St. Jerome. She was the daughter of Albinus, a heathen priest, but her mother wa
- LAETUS(1), brother of bishop Marcellus. (Ambry. ep. 82, § 8.) [Marcetius.] [C. H.]
- LAFRIANUS([Laserran (2).]
- LAIDGEN(1) (Lavcuenp, LATHACAN), monk of Clonfert Molua (Clandonagh), Queen's County, commemorated Jan. 12. Colgan (Acta SS. 57
- LAIDRACHUOSarchbishop. [LEIDRADUs.] LAISRE (1). [Laisren (2).]
- LAISRE(2) (Lasrean, Lasrivu), son of Colum or Colman, abbat of Druimliag, which is placed by Lanigan in that part of Kerry whi
- LAISREN(1) (LAsrianvs), son of Nase, commemorated in the Irish calendars on Oct. 25, and in the Felire of Aengus called Laisren
- LAISRI[Boawa and Cotma.] (Alart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 25, 433.) (J. G.]
- LAISTRANUS(Lasrianus), one of the Scotic presbyters whom pope John, in the year 640, addressed upon the paschal question in the we
- LAITNEUSabbat, follows Morcus parvus: in O'Conor's version of the Annals of Tigernach, A.D. 763 (Ker, Hib. Script. ii. 256), but
- LALOECEN(Lattoxren, Larorcen, LLALtOGAN), "homo fatuus" in Vit. S. Kentigerni at the court of Rhydderch Hael king of Cumbria, an
- LAM-LUOC(Lamtuvoc), identified with Lugaidh or Moluoe of Lismore in Loch Linnhe,
- LAMALISSEconfessor, commemorated March 3; lived on Arran in the Firth of Clyde in the 7th century, and has given his name to Laml
- LAMBERTUS(1) (LANDEBERTUS), saint and martyr, thirtieth bishop of Maestricht (cire. 670-708). A number of lives of him survive. T
- LAMPADIUS(1), bishop of Utina, or Uthina,
- LAMPERTUSabbat of the monastery of St. Leo at Brescia, c. 770. (Catalogus Rerum Langob. Brixiensis et Nonantulanus in Monum. Reru
- LAMPETIUS[Evcuires, vol. ii. p.260.]
- LAMPIUSbishop of Barcelona, next ta Pacianus (Florez, Esp. Sag. xxix. 97). Paulinus bishop of Nola was ordained priest by him a
- LAMPOpresbyter of Alexandria, an active adherent of St. Cyril. He is addressed in a letter of Cyril (Zp. 70 d. 53, p. 198), w
- LAMPONIANUSa presbyter in the jurisdiction of Theophilus patriarch of Alexandria, excommunicated for chastising with blows a fellow
- LAMPONIUSa presbyter of Karula at the council of Elvira, A.D. 305 (Mansi, ii. 29). Mendoza (ibid. 108 a) reads Lamponianus and id
- LAMPRIDIUSa Gallic poet and rhetorician, who flourished in the latter half of the 5th century, and is known to us from the works o
- LAMPROTATEa young lady who presented herself to Ephraim the Syrian on his deathbed, and is mentioned at the end of his Testament (
- LAMPROTATUSa deacon of Constantinople, commended by Chrysostom with his fellow deacon Eusebius for the constancy with which they ha
- LAMPROTYCHUSarchimandrite, counselled by Nilus on his appointment. (Nilus, ep. 108, lib. iii. in Pat. Gr. Ixxix. 334.)
- LAMPYRUSJuly 19, martyr at Synnada
- LAMWILLbishop. [Lomrvt.]
- LANBRIHTUS(Malm. G. B. i. § 87, ed. Hardy), archbishop of Canterbury. [JAENBERT.]
- LANDBERTUSninth bishop of Strasbourg, perhaps about the middle of the 7th century. (Gall. Christ. v. 780.) [S. A. B.]
- LANDEBERCHTUS(Lanposerr, LamBERT), twenty-sixth archbishop of Sens, was present at the council held in the palace of Morlaye, A.D. 67
- LANDEBERTUS(1), twenty-first bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, in A.D. 666. (Migne, Patr. Lat. Ixxxviii. 1183 ; Gall. Chr. ix. 863.)
- LANDELINUS, STfounder of the abbeys of Lobbes (Laubacus), Aulne, Valers, and Crespin, all in Hainault, in the latter half of the 7th c
- LANDERICUS(2) (Lanpry), twenty-eighth bishop of Paris, is chiefly known from the charter of privileges which he gave to the monast
- LANDOtwenty-fourth bishop of Rheims, is said to have been brother of Erchenvald, mayor of the palace to Clovis II., and of St
- LANDOALDUSarchpresbyter sent by pope Martin I. with the deacon Amantius to assist Amandus in his mission in the north-east of Gaul
- LANDOARIUSthirty-sixth archbishop of Bourges, cire. a.p. 763-767. (Gall. Christ. ii.
- LANDRADAJuly 8, foundress and first abbess (669-690) of the monastery of Belisia (Munster-Bilsen) near the town of Bilsen on the
- LANDRICUS(Lanpericus, Lanpry), ST., a bishop who has been variously assigned to Mettis (Metz), to Meldis (Meaux), and conjectural
- LANDRYof Paris. [LanpERIcvs (2).]
- LANDULPHUS(1), nineteenth bishop of Soissons, cir. 620. (Gall. Chr. ix. 337.) {C. H.] LANDULPHUS (2) (Lavuputrus, Lavp, Laov), sev
- LANDUS(1), May 5, alleged martyr at Horta (Orte) in the sixth century according to local belief as recorded by Ferrarius. (Bol
- LANFERTHbishop of Elmham. ([EanFRITH. ]
- LANFRIDUSbishop of Castro, present at the Lateran synod under Stephen IV. in 769. (Mansi, xii. 715; Hefele, § 343.)
- LANGUORETH, LANGUUETHwife of Rhydderch Hael, who ruled over the Cumbrian Britons, Through the prayers of St. Kentigern, she received a son, w
- LANTBERTUS(LANDEBERTUS, LAMBERTUS), saint, 39th archbishop of Lyons, circ. A.D. 678-689. His life was written by Aigradus, the mon
- LANTFRIDUSabbat and priest in Bavaria, to whom Ambrosius <Autpertus, abbat of a monastery near Beneyentum in the 8th century, i
- LANTHECHILDIS(LantTizpis), a sister of Clovis I., who appears to have been converted to Christianity before her brother, but had beco
- LANTWALDUS(Rvuruwatpvus), one of the early bishops of Mainz, cir. 620, according to some lists (Potthast, Bibl. supp. p. 353). He
- LAODICIUSbishop of Clypea, present at the Carthaginian conference, A.D. 411. (Collat. Carth. cogn. i, 183; Morcelli, Afr. Chr. i.
- LAOUbishop of Evreux. [LANDULPHUs.]
- LARGUS(1), martyr at Aquileia, in the reign of Numerian; commemorated on March
- LASCIVUS(Lauscrus), ninth bishop of Bayeux, subscribed the third council of Paris (cire. A.D. 555). (Mansi, ix. 747; Le Cointe,
- LASERANUS([Gossan (1).]
- LASERIAN(1) (Motais, Motasu, MutLUSHES), abbat of Daimhinis, now Devenish island in Lough Erne. His commemoration is Sept. 12 in
- LASRAINson of Lughaidh, and one of the six sainted sons. whom he had by Cainer of Cluain-da-saileach, their mother. (Mart. Done
- LASREAN(LAsrents), abbat of Bangor, co. Down, died A.D. 646, (Ann. Tig. eod. an. ; Ann. Ult. A.D. 645, calling him Mac Lai
- LASRENUS MAUMOIE(Laisranvs), a pious gardener in the north of Ireland (Scotia) in the time of St. Columba, who died in sanctity in the m
- LASSAR(1) (Lasar), virgin, daughter of Eoghan, of Maighin, commemorated April 18 (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 107 ; Mart.
- LASSARAsister of St. Sedna of Killaney, and daughter of Neman, son of Aidus, son of Lorn (Colgan, Acta SS. 569n.*). From her co
- LASTIDIANUSa cousin of Augustine, present with others at the discussion on Happy Life. (August. De Beata Vita, cap. 1, § 6.)
- LATHACAN SCOTIGENAauthor of a Luirech, Lorica, or Hymn for protection from evils, which is in Mone's Hymn. Lat. Med. Aevi, i, 367 (referre
- LATHARNAISOC, LATHARNAIScommemorated with Itharnaisc at Achadh-ferta, Jan. 14 (Mart. Doneg. by Todd'and Reeves, 15), but there is possibly some
- LATHENone of the maternal angels in the system of Jusrinus. (Hippol. Ref. v. 26, p. 187.) [G. S.
- LATINUSbishop of Brescia. [FLavius(1).]
- LATIUSdisciple of St. Patrick, and said to have been a Roman, whom St. Patrick sent to convert the Corco-Bhascinn in the south
- LATObishop of Spires, [Lurpo.]}
- LATONIUSbishop of Thenae, a seaport in Byzacene (Ant. Jter. 46, 2; Plin. v. 4, 25; Thaini, Shaw, p. 112), present at the Carthag
- LATROsecond bishop' of Laon, about the middle of the 6th century. (Gall. Christ. ix. 510.) [S. A. B.]
- LATRONIANUS(1), corrector of Sicily. (Euseb. HZ. E, x. 5.) [H..Wi. P.}
- LATUINUSJune 20, traditionary first bishop of Séez, said by Du Saussay (Martyr. Gall.) to have been. sent. into Gaul by St. Clem
- LAUDbishop of Byreux. (Lanpurpavs.)}
- LAUDANUScommemorated in Vart. Tall. (ap. Kelly, Cal. Ir. Saints, xviii.) at March 16,. but probably a misreading of Aedanus, bis
- LAUDATUS, ST(or Lleuddad), abbat oft Bardsey Island (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 221). A chapel was dedicated to St. Laud in the parish o
- LAUDFRIDUS(Lauprrripus), said to-have been thirty-first bishop of Mainz, early in. the 6th century. (Gall: Christ. v..4353; Pottha
- LAUDUS(Lauro, Laupo, Launus, popularly Lo), fifth bishop of Coutances (circ. A.D. 528). In 529, or the succeeding year, he was
- LAULFUSbishop of Barcelona from about 689 till after 694. He appears at the sixteenth council of Toledo under Egica (G28), us s
- LAUNEBODESa duke of Toulouse, accordwg to Venantius Fortunatus, of barbaric, ie. probably Gothic, birth, who built a church in hon
- LAUNOBAUDUSthird in the list of the bishops of Lisieux, present at the council of Chalons, about A.D. 650. (Mansi, x. 1194; Gall. C
- LAUNOMARUS(Lavpomarts, popularly Laumer or Lomer), ST., founder and first abbat of the monastery of Courgeon, or Corbion (Curbio),
- LAUNUSL, thirteenth bishop of Angouléme, was chaplain of king Pippin, and owed to him
- LAURENTIAOct. 8, martyr at Ancona,. with another virgin, Palatias, in the persecution of Diocletian according to some ancient MSS
- LAURENTINUS(1) (Lavrentivs), Roman martyr. (Cyp. Ep. 39; Feb. 3, Mart. Rom. Vet. ; Mart. Adon., Usuard.) [CELERINUS. ]
- LAURENTIUS(1), bishop of Nola, recorded' in the diptychs of the church. Remondini (Della Nolana Eccles. Storia, p. 601) argues tha
- LAUREOLUS23rd bishop of Novara, between Probus and Leo, before A.D. 700. (Ughelli, iv. 695; Cappelletti, xiv. 448, 526.) [C. H.]
- LAURIANUSJuly 4, martyr in the territory of Bourges, according to Usuard, who states that his head was carried to Seville. To thi
- LAURUS(1), martyr with his twin brother Florus; commemorated on Aug. 18. In the reign of Constantine the Great their relics we
- LAUSCIUSbishop of Bayeux. [Lascrvus. LAUSTRANUS. [Latsrranvs.]
- LAUSUS'(8)(1), an imperial officer, sent b the emperor Julian to Basil, a.p. 362, with th view of intimidating him. (Basil. Zpist,
- LAVANUS, STthe patron saint of St. Levan, a parish near the Land's End. He was probably Irish. The parish feast is on the Sunday ne
- LAVERIUSNov. 17, martyr in the early part of Constantine's reign, according to his Gesta written in 1162 and printed in Ughelli
- LAZARUS(1), reputed by the church of Marseilles to have been first bishop of Marseilles, and the brother of Mary and Martha. Th
- LAZREANUS, LAZRENUS[Laserran.}
- LEA(1), a woman of low condition and of worthless character, one of the calumniators of Indicia. (Ambros. ep. 5, § 20 in Pa
- LEANDER(1), one. of seven senators martyred at Tréves under Rictiovarus in 286, according to the tradition at Tréves. (Sigeb. i
- LEARBHANBAN(LERBENBAN), airchinneach or praepositus of Cluain-boireann now Cloonburren, died A.D. 794. (Four Vast. by O'Donovan, A.
- LEARGHAL(LERGAELIUS), wise man, son of Neimhith, abbat of Birar (now Birr, King's County), died a.p. 774. (Four Mast. by O'Donov
- LEARGHUS UA FIDCHAINN(Lerevs), a wise man of Cill-Maighnenn (mow Kilmain- — ham, near Dublin), died a.p. 787. (Four Mast. by O'Donovan, A.D.
- LEARY'king of Ireland. [LAEGHAIRE.] LEBAN, Ivish saint.
- LEBORA(AcBépa, Ac8épa, LAPHURA, LEBUDA, OWAIN), apocryphal daughter of Adam, twin sister of Abel, given in marriage to Cain, w
- LEBUINUS(1) (Losoinus, LEBOINUS), reputed forty-first bishop of Lyons, towards the close of the 7th century, but the authors of
- LEDUARDUSthirteenth bishop of Macon, said to have been consecrated A.D. 769 (Gall. Christ. iv. instrum, 263; Le Cointe, Ann. Eccl
- LEDUINAIrish saint. [LrADHAIN.]
- LEFASTUS(Lrrrastvs), twentieth bishop of Autun, about the close of the 6th century. (M bill. Acta SS. Ord. S. Bened. i. 834; Gal
- LEGER([Leoprcarivs.]
- LEGIO FULMINATRIX[Tuunperine Lraion. ]
- LEGIO THEBABEASept. 22.
- LEGITIMUSa bishop who acted as messenger from Leo the Great in a.p. 443, (Leo Mag. Ep. 4, § 2 in Pat. Lat. liv. 615.) [{C. G.J
- LEGONTIUS(Lecuncrus), twelfth bishop of Metz, A.D. 446. The Sammarthani (Gall. Chr. xiii. 685) prefer this statement to that of t
- LEGONUS(Leconrius), third bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, cir. A.D. 360. (Greg. Tur. H. F.i, 393; Gall, Ch, ii. 227; Tillem. vi
- LEIDRADUS(1), doubtful bishop of Urgel, A.D. 799-806. Villanueva (Viage Literario, t. x. pp- 40, 225) is disposed, but with hesit
- LENDIVORDbishop of Menevia, now St.
- LENIN(Lernry, Lentne), father of St. Colmran of Cloyne [Couman (6)], and of Brighit and the other "daughters of Leinin" who a
- LENOGISILUS(Lonzcisix0vs), ST., a priest in the diocese of Le Mans in the 7th century. The Bollandists publish a biography of him e
- LENTHECORIUSthirteenth bishop of Luni, cir. 700, according to Ughelli (Ztal. Sac. i. 834), but by others he is called Leodegarius. [
- LENTULUSreputed author of an apoeryphal letter to the Roman senate about Christ. It gives mediaeval ideas as to Christ's persona
- LEO(1) I., emperor (surnamed the Great, the Thracian, and the Butcher), was born about A.D. 400 in the country of the Bessi
- LEOBALDUS(Lerupatpus, LEeBarpus, LEroBarpvs), archbishop and twenty-fifth bishop of Tours, said in the chronicles to have sat six
- LEOBARDUS(1), Jan. 18 (popularly Sr. Liberp), a recluse at Majus Monasterium (Marmoutier), near Tours, in the time of Gregory bis
- LEOBATIUSfirst prior of the monastery of Senaparia (Seneviéres), in the 6th century, appointed by Ursus the founder (Greg. Tur. V
- LEOBERICUSof Urgel. [Levbericvs.]
- LEOBERTUSthirty-fifth bishop of Chartres, succeeding Agatheus, and followed by Hado, said to have been in occupation of the see i
- LEOBGYTHA[Lioza.]
- LEOBINUS(Levninvs, popularly Lupin), ST., seventeenth bishop of Chartres in the 6th century; he died about the year 556. A biogr
- LEOCADIA(1), Dec. 9, virgin and martyr at Toledo, in the reign of Diocletian, under the praeses Dacianus. Three churches are ded
- LEOCADIUSone of the principal senators of Gaul, a reputed descendant of Vettius Epagathus, the martyr of Lyon. (Greg. Tur. Hist.
- LEODARDUS(Lerarpvs), fourth bishop of Amiens, cir. 416. (Gall. Chr. x. 1152.)
- LEODEBAUDUS(LropEBaupus), tenth bishop of Nevers, according to the Gallia Christiana, omitted in Coquille's series. (Migne, Patrol.
- LEODEBERTUSthirtieth bishop of Orleans, about the commencement of the 8th cen- tury. (Gallia Christ. viii. 1417.) —[S. A. B.]
- LEODEBODUSfirst abbat of St. Anianus (St. Aignan), in the diocese of Orleans, and founder of the monastery of Fleury on the Loire
- LEODEBOLDUSbishop of Lisieux, a.p. 662 or 663. (Migne, Patrol. Lat. Ixxxviii. 1181; Gallia Christiana, xi. 764.) [S. A. B.]
- LEODEGARIUS(1) (Lécrr), ST., priest in the district of Perthe (Perta) in Champagne, and supposed to have lived in the 5th or 6th ce
- LEODEGISILLUStwenty-first bishop of Orleans, in the first half of the 7th century. (Mansi, x. 759; Gall, Christ. viii. 1416; Gams, Se
- LEODEGISIUS("cognomento Julianus"), from about 675 till about 678, metropolitan of
- LEODENINGUS| sixteenth bishop _ of Bayeux, known from his subscription to the placitum of Attigny in A.D. 765. (Mansi, xii. 675 ; G
- LEODRANDUSfifteenth archbishop of Tarentaise, perhaps about the commencement of the 8th century. The authors of the Gallia Christi
- LEOLINUS(LeEonrnvs, Leontvs), bishop of Patavium (Padua), said to have held that see from c. A.D. 232 to 244, (Boll. Acta SS. 29
- LEONARDUS, STconfessor in the 6th century, honoured at Corbiniacum (Corbigny), in the diocese of Autun. There is a short life of him
- LEONASa "famulus Dei," who brought St. Augustine for his perusal many things from Consentius. (August. Cont. Mendacium, cap. i
- LEONIANUS(Levunranus), ST., abbat of the monastery of St. Peter at Vienne, who died about 510, and is commemorated Nov. 16. He is
- LEONIDES(1), April 22, father of Origen, martyr in 202 or 203. [ORIGEN. ] fan Tate
- LEONILLAJan.17. Martyr in Gaul, in the country of the Lingones, during the persecution of Aurelian, together with her grandsons
- LEONIUS(1), second bishop of Apt, suffered martyrdom in the invasion of the Alemanni under Chrocus in 266 or 312. (Mansi, ii. 4
- LEONORIUS, STa Briton, a disciple of St. Iltutus, who passed over to Brittany in the time of king Childebert, a.p. 575-96. (Acta Sanc
- LEONTIA(Acovré in Cedrenus), Augusta, wife of the emperor Phocas. On Noy. 30, 602, seven days after her husband's coronation, s
- LEONTIUS(1), fifth known bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, between Lucius and Eulalius (Le Quien, Or. Chr, i. 370). It is suppos
- LEOPACHARIUS(Leorarius, LEuPIcARIvs), twenty-first archbishop of Tours, hospita- bly entertained St. Columban on his way to Nantes,
- LEOPARDINUSOct. 7, abbat of St. Symphorian of Vivaris, and martyr, in the 6th or 7th century. (Boll. Acta SS. Oct. iii. 914.)
- LEOPARDUS(1), Sept. 30, a domestic servant of the emperor Julian, martyred at Rome. (Boll. Acta SS. Sept. viii. 413.) See also Mo
- LEOPARIUSof Tours.
- LEOPERTUStwenty-first bishop of Grenoble, perhaps about the middle of the 8th cen- tury. (Gall. Christ. xvi. 223.) (S. A. B.]
- LEOSINDUS(Leovisinpus, TEODESINDUS), bishop of Iria Flavia (Santiago), placed under Roderic, the last Gothic king, by the 12th-ce
- LEOTHADIUS, STthirty-second bishop of Auch, or Aux, circ. A.D. 691-717, is said to have belonged to a noble family of Aquitaine. Accor
- LEOTHERIUSseventh bishop of Bourges, A.D. 354-363. (Gall. Ch. ii. 6.) [R. T. 8.]
- LEOTWINUS(Leopowrnvus, Lurrwinus, Lutwinvs, Lupwin), ST., thirty-fourth bishop of Tréves (circ. A.D. 695-713). 'The story of his
- LEOVIGILD(Levvicuitp), Arian in
- LEOWALDUSan early bishop of Mainz. {Lupoa.pts. ]
- LEPIDUSprefect of Smyrna at the trial of St. Pionius in the Decian persecution. (Acta Alia Pionii, cap. 4, in Boll. Acta SS, Fe
- LEPORINUSbishop of Le Mans. [Lrsortvs.]
- LEPORIUS(1), a presbyter of Hippo Regius, who having been possessed of large worldly means, induced, as it seems, the members of
- LERENIUSbishop, "de Secoro." (Hilar. Fragm. ii. in Pat. Lat. x. 643.4.) [IRENAEUS ()-]
- LERTHAN, LERTHANAabbess of Kildare, A.D. 773. (Four Mast. A.p. 768 ; Ann. Ult. A.D. 772; Colgan, Zr. Thaum. 629 a, 666 b.)
- LESMODec. 9, abbat in the mountains of Argyle, A.D. 781. (Bp. Forbes, Kal. Scot. Saints, 221, 378.) [J. G.]
- LETATIUS(Usuard.), LAETANTIUS (Baron.)—July 17. One of the martyrs of Scillita. [Fenrx (212).] (Ceillier, i.543.) [G. T. 8.)
- LETOIUS(1), bishop of Melitene, the metropolis of the second province of Lesser Armenia, to whom Gregory of Nyssa wrote his Zpi
- LEU[Lurvs.]
- LEUBERICUS(Leopericvs), bishop of Urgel, subscribing the 13th, 15th, and 16th councils of Toledo, A.p. 683, 688, 693. (Mansi, xi.
- LEUCADIUS(1) (Leucapas), bishop of Ilium, in the convention at Philippopolis, A.D. 344, (Mansi, iii. 139; Le Quien, i. 775.)
- LEUCHERUS, STbishop of Dol in the 7th century. (Mabill. Acta SS, Ord. 8. Bened. i. 185, Paris, 1668 ; Gall. Christ. xiv. 1041.)
- LEUCIUS(1), the reputed author of large apocryphal additions to the New Testament history, which originated in heretical circle
- LEUDARDUSservant of Emnerus deacon of Nantes, cured of six years' blindness at the church of St, Martin at Tours, and on his fest
- LEUDASTESa count of Tours during the: episcopate of Gregory bishop of Tours, put to-death by order of queen Fredegund, A.D. 583.
- LEUDEBAUDISeighth bishop of Séez, who subscribed the second council of Tours, in 566, the fourth of. Paris, in 573, and the letter
- LEUDEBERTUStwenty-sixth archbishop of Paris, present at the council of Rheims, held about A.D. 625 or 630. (Flodoard, Hist. Rem, ii
- LEUDEFREDUS(Leoperrivvs, LEUFREDus, LAUDEFREDUS), bishop of Cordova, at the 4th and 5th councils of Toledo (633, 636), His vicar, V
- LEUDEGISILUStwenty-second archbishop of Rheims, Le Cointe places his episcopate from 631 to 641, (Flodoard, Hist, Eccl. Rem. ii. 6;
- LEUDEMUNDUSfourteenth bishop of Sion, cir, A.D. 613. (Aimoin, de Gest. Franc. iv. 6; Bouquet, iii. 120, 121; Gall. Christ. xii. 736
- LEUDERICUSbishop of Urgel, a.p. 735-
- LEUDINUS BODO(Levpuinvs), ST., seventeenth bishop of Toul. The date of the commencement of his episcopate is given as about A.D. 667.
- LEUDIWITbishop of Menevia or St. David's. Girald. Cambr. Jtin. Kamb. ii. c. 1, wks. vi. 105.) [LENDIVORD.] [J. G.]
- LEUDOCUSWelsh saint. (Girald. Cambr. Itin. Kamb. ii. c. 3, wks. vi. 114.) [LLEUDDAD.] [J. G.]
- LEUDOMERUS(Lupomerus, Lumirr), ST., commemorated Oct. 2, eighteenth bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne. His episcopate, according to Le C
- LEUDOVALDUStenth bishop of Bayeux. (Gall. Chr. xi. 349). He was one of the envoys sent by Chilperic to Childebert in 581, to confir
- LEUFERTH, LEUTHFRIHATa bishop whose appointment is mentioned by Simeon of Durham under the year 773. (M. H. B. 664.) He was the successor of
- LEUNISIUS(Leonistus, LINDEGASIUSs, LupEGastus, LEUDEGASTUS), thirty-fifth bishop of Mainz, cir. 612. (Fredegar, Chronicon, xxxvii
- LEUPOLDUS(Lupotpus), said to have been twenty-second bishop of Mainz. His death is put in the year 421. (Serarius, Rerwm Moguntia
- LEUS(La, LEO), presbyter and confessor at Viguentia in the diocese of Ferrara, Italy, in the time of Diocletian, is commemor
- LEUSIBORAStwice mentioned by Jerome (Lp. 75 al, 29, ad Theod. § 3, Opp. i. 453, and in Isai. 64, Opp. iv. 761), but by no one else
- LEUTFREDUS(Levrroy), ST., founder and first abbat of the monastery, which afterwards bore his name (Crux §. Leutfredi, La-Croix-St
- LEUTHERIUS(Hioruere, LevTER, LivTHARI), the fourth bishop of the West Saxons (Mon. Hist. Brit. 619). He was a Frank by birth, and
- LEVANGIUS, ST(Livantus, LivaANIANUs, BEVAGIUS), commemorated Oct. 19; nintt bishop of Senlis, present at the first council of Orleans
- LEVANUS, STthe patron saint of St. Levan, a parish near the Land's End. He probably Irish. The parish feast is on the Sunda: neares
- LEVI(otherwise LEBEs), bishop of Jerusalem in the 2nd century. He stands twelfth on the list given by Eusebius. (Euseb, H. F
- LEVIANUSpossibly bishop of Fulginium (Foligno), c. A.D. 175. (Jacobilli, Citta di Foligno, p- 31; Ughelli, Ztal. Sacr. i. 733; C
- LEWINNA(Levina, Levvina), July 24, legendary martyr of Britain, assigned to the 7th century. The monk Drogo, who narrates her t
- LIADHAIN(Lepury, Lepurna, LrapArn, LiaDANnA, LIADANIA, LIDUEN, LIEDANTIA, LIGHAIN, LIVEN), Irish saint, mother of St. Ciaran (Ma
- LIAMHAIN(Liamarn, Liamarna, LIzEMAN, LiemMANIA, LIMANIA), one of the five reputed sisters of St. Patrick and daughter of Calphur
- LIBAN, LIBANA, LIBANIA(Lipuay), Trish virgin saint, was one of those who assembled at or near Ballysadare, co. Sligo, to confer with St. Colum
- LIBANIUS(1), a deacon from whom, in his passage through Caesarea, A.D. 378, Basil received tidings of Eusebius of Samosata. (Bas
- LIBARIA(Liserta, Lrprarta), martyred with her sister Susanna and brothers Eliphius and Eucharius bishop of Toul, A.D. 362, acco
- LIBELLUS SYNODICUS(Vetus Synodicon or Suvodicédy, Fabric.). A compendium of the proceedings of 151 councils from the time of the apostles
- LIBER(1) (Lisertvs), "the Martyred," is commemorated November 2 (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 294, 433), and is identifie
- LIBER PONTIFICALIScalled also in the MSS. Liser EPIscopaLis, or else LIBER DE GeEsTIs ROMANORUM PontTiFIcuM. This work in its present shap
- LIBERALIS(1), African bishop of an unknown but important see; was with Cyprian at Adrumetum, Zp. 483; one of the forty-one in Con
- LIBERANTIUSDonatist bishop of Tisania, perhaps in Numidia, present at the Carthaginian
- LIBERATAJan. 16, a virgin of Ticinum (Pawia), stated by Ferrarius, but on insufficient grounds, to have been a sister of Epiphan
- LIBERATUS(1) (Liseratis), presbyter of Eliocrota (Lorca in Murcia), at the council of Elvira, cir. 305 (Mansi, ii. 29, 108), his
- LIBERIANUSmartyr with Justin. (Acta Just. Mart. Otto, ii. 274.) [G. S.J
- LIBERIUS(1) I., bishop of Ravenna, cir. A.D. 200. (Acta SS. 29 Apr. iii. 614; Ughelli, Ital. Sacr. ii. 328; Cappelletti, Le Chie
- LIBERTINUS(1) (Lipertvs), provost of the monastery of Fundi, in the time of Totila king of the Goths. (Greg. Magn. Dial. lib. i. 2
- LIBORIUS(Leporius, Lerorinus, LipeRivus), ST., fourth bishop of Le Mans, said to have been buried by St. Martin of Tours in 397,
- LIBOSUSAfrican bishop in Syn. Carth. sub Cyp. iv. A.D. 254, de Dasilide, Cyp. Ep. 67 (omitted by Morcelli as) bishop of Vaga (o
- LIBRANUS ARUNDINETUShas the story of his life related by St. Adamnan (Vit. S. Columbae, ii. 39) with special fulness and with a vivid repres
- LIBRARY(Ce fetraee wee OAT
- LICENTIUS(1), a native of Tagaste, perhaps a relation of St. Augustine (Poem. 1. 137), and son of the Romanianus to whom Augustin
- LICERIUS(1) (Lizter), ST., fifth or sixth bishop of Conserans, according to the lists of the Gallia Christiana (i, 1226), and Ga
- LICINIANUS(Lucrnranus), the fourth known bishop of Carthagena, a Latin ecclesiastical writer, cir. 584. Isidore of Seville (De Scr
- LICINIUS(1), emperor. See the Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog. and the article ConsTANntrnus I. in this Dictionary ; also Gérres, Kri
- LICONTIUS(Lxonrius), twenty -seventh bishop of Lyons, said to have been consecrated in A.D, 542, and to have sat for two years. (
- LIDORIUS(Lirnortvus), Sep. 13, second bishop of Tours and a citizen of that town, A.D. 337 or 340-370 (Greg. Tur. Hist. Fr. x. 3
- LIFARDUS(1) (Lirnarpus, Leirarpvs, LAIFARDUS, LEOFARDUS), June 3, abbat of Magdunum (Meung on the Loire, below Orleans, Gall. Ch
- LILIOLUS(1), bishop of Acci (Guadix), subscribed the acts of the conversion council under Recared (A.D. 589). Gams, Kirchengesch
- LIMENIANUSbishop of Taprura, or Taphgzura, a name which probably represents ra povpia, in Byzacene (Ptol. iv. 3, 10; Bucking, Not.
- LIMENIUS(1), bishop of Vercellae at the council of Aquileia in 381. (Mansi, iii. 599; Ughelli, iv. 761; Cappelletti, xiv. 362, 4
- LINGUINUSstated to have been buried in the church of St. Venerandus at Claremont in Auvergne (De Eccles. Claromont. lib. i. cap.
- LINIANUS(Lincrnvs), bishop of Beneventum (Benevento), probably c. A.D. 369. (Sarnelli, Vescovt di Benevento, p. 23; Ughelli,
- LINIANUS ILbishop of Benevento, c. 591. (Cappelletti, iii. 23.) [A. H. D. A.J
- LINUS(1), accounted the first bishop of Rome after the apostles, and identified by Irenaeus (iii. 2) with the Linus from whom
- LIOBA(Lropa, Leuba, LropaytTHa, LEoBGID, TRUTHGEBA), Sept. 28, abbess of Bischofs- heim, cir. 748-779. She was an English lad
- LISMORIENSIS MONACHUSnoticed by Dempster (Hist. Eccl. Gent. Scot. ii. 441), as having written Conversio Scotorum, perhaps in the year 530. (T
- LITAREDUS(Litmarepvs), sixth bishop of Séez, subscribed the first council of Orleans, in A.D. 511, as "episcopus Oximensis," Oxim
- LITHGHEN(Lerrucen), of Cluainmor, commemorated Jan. 16. Shearman (Loca Patriciana ap. Journ. Roy. Hist. and Arch. Assoc. Ir. 4th
- LITORIUS(2), bishop of Oca (Burgos), at the eighth council of Toledo (A.D. 653). Florez believes the signature Citorius, at the
- LITTEUSbishop of Gemellae, a station on the frontier between Numidia and Mauritania. Sentt. 82, Syn. Carth. sub Cyp. de Bapt. 3
- LITTORIUS(Licrorivs, also written VicTORIUS), an African bishop, present at the council of Milevis, A.D, 416. (Aug. Zp. 176.)
- LIUDGERUS(Lupeexrvs), ST., first bishop of Miinster (Mimigerneford, Mimigardeford—see Rettberg, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, i
- LIUDHARDUS(Lerarp, Leruarpus, LeTALDUS, LUIDHARDUS), the Frank bishop who attended queen Bertha of Kent when she came to England (
- LIUTARDUSbishop of Padua, c. 793. (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d' Italia, x. 489.) [A. H. D. AL]
- LIUTHERICUS(Livpericus, Lrurericu, LUDERICH), fourth bishop of Wiirzburg, or Herbipolis, between Bernwelf and Egilwald. He was pres
- LIUTPERTthe young son of Cunipert, king of the Lombards, is included in the list of Lombard kings (700-702). Some light is throw
- LIUTPRANDUS(1) (the form LurrPRANDUS is often found, but the former accord- ing to Muratori, Rerum Jtalicarum Scriptores,
- LIUVAbishop of Braga and Dumium from bout 678 A.D. He signs the twelfth and thireenth councils of Toledo (681, 683) in person
- LIVINUS(1), ST., called the apostle of the srabant, and a reputed bishop, or archbishop, nd martyr. A biography of him remains,
- LIVIUSa contemporary of St. Hilary of Arles, described by the author of the life of that saint as a distinguished poet and ora
- LLECHID, STthe foundress of Llanllechid in Carnarvonshire. Commemorated on Dec. 2, (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 223.) [C. W. B.]
- LLEIANa daughter of Brychan ; supposed to have founded Capel Llanlleian in Carmarthenshire. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 147-8.)
- LLEMINOD ANGELWelsh saint in the 6th century. (Rees, Welsh Saints, 280; Williams, Emin. Welsh. 276.) [J. G.]
- LLESap Coel, British king and saint. (Rees, Welsh Saints, 83 ; Williams, Emin. Welsh. 276.) [Lucrvs.] [iaG. 5
- LLEUDDAD[Lavuparvs.]
- LLEWELYN(Liywetyn), Welsh saint, [GWRNERTH.] (Rees, Welsh Saints, 261; Williams, Hmin. Welsh. 303; Skene, Four Anc. Books of Wal
- LLEWYRreputed bishop of Llandaff or Caer Leon. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 623 n.5 Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Angl. 154.) {J. G.]
- LLIBIO, STthe saint of Llanllibio in Anglesea, was commemorated on Feb, 28. (R.. Rees, Welsh Saints, 308.) He and his brothers bec
- LLONIO LLAWHIR(Liontaw, LionyAv), Welsh saint, early in the 6th century. (Myv. Arch. ii. 25, 46; E. Williams, Jolo MSS. 497, 504, 535-
- LLUDDNEU(Lupnov), abbat of Bolgros, in the 5th or early in the 6th century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 155-6, 409-410.) (J. GJ i
- LLUDDON(Lupon), abbat of Bolgros in the 6th century. He may be the same as LLUDDNEUs (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 157, 411.) {J. G.]
- LLWCHAIARN, STthe saint of Llanllwchaiarn in Montgomeryshire, and another chi of the same name in Cardiganshire. His da: was Jan. 11.
- LLWDHWREF(Lupnvusr, Lupuurs, L HWRF), abbat of Docunnus's monastery in 6th century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 141, 1
- LLWNI, STthe saint of Llanllwni in Carmarthenshire. His day was Aug. 11. (R. Rees, Welsh Saints, 308.) fee Wetb.|
- LLYNAB(Liyvas, Livvas), Welsh saint. (Myv. Arch. ii. 31 n., 46 ; E. Williams, Jolo MSS. 199; Rees, Welsh Saints, 165,221; R. W
- LLYR MERINIWelsh saint. (Camb. Quart. Mag. iii. 39; Williams, Emin. Welsh. 296.) (J. G.J
- LLYWEL(Lonevrn, Lovurt, Lovin, Luni), Welsh saint, in the 6th century. (Lib. Landav. by Rees, 119, 120, 351, 365-6; Rees, Wels
- LOARN(1) (Loarnp, Loarnus, LocarNACH), priest of Achadh-mor and commemorated Aug. 30. -(Colgan, Zr. Thawm. 137, c. 57, 178 n.
- LOCANUSname of St. Barry. [Barry.]
- LOCHANIrish saint, brother of St. Fachtna, 'bishop of Ross about the 6th century. (Colgan, Acta SS. 596, c. 7, and Tr. Thaum.
- LOCHEN-MEANN, LOCHENIUS- \MENNsurnamed the Wise, abbat of Kildare, is 'thought also to have been bishop; he died A.D. 696, probably by violence, and m
- LOCHENUSIvish saint. [Moaea.]
- LOCHINA, LOCHINIAIrish saint, virgin, sister of St. Enna of Aran (March 21), and of St. Fainche Garbh of Ros-airthir (Jan. 1) [FarnonE (2
- LOCHINUSof Achadh-airaird, Irish saint, disciple of St. Barry at Loch Irce. (Caulfield, Life of St.-Fin Barre, v.; Colgan, Acta
- LOGA, LOGHA(Lucuna), priest of St. Patrick and his helmsman. (/our Mast. by O'Donoyan, A.D. 448, i. 140 n.¥, 141.) [LueNAT. ] {J. G
- LOGOS, THE WORDapplied by St. John to our Lord (Gospel i. 1,14;.1 Ep. i. 1; Apoc. xix, 13). There are several passages in the Old Testa
- LOMAN(1) (Lommanus, Lumanvs, LumMANUS), bishop of Trim, co. Meath; commemo- rated Feb. 17 and Oct. 11. His legend uniformly c
- LOMCHU(Lomcuon), of Cill Lomchon in Ulster; commemorated Jan, 9. (Colgan, Zr. Thaum. 157, c. 41, 186 n.7%, 226 b, 267 b; Mart.
- LONAN(1), of Cluain-tibrinne in Clann-Cheallaigh (Mart. Doneg.); commemorated Oct. 24. (O'Hanlon, Zrish Saints, ii. 584n.™4.)
- LONGARADH, LON-GARADH| sur named Coisfinn (of the white foot), is comme morated Sept. 3, and had his abode in th district of Slieve-Margy, Qu
- LONGIANUSa bishop of Armenia or Pontus mentioned by Athanasius in 356 with others of the Catholic party. (Zp. ad Episc. Aeg. § 8,
- LONGINIANUSa_ philosophical ee who appears to have been a member of t pontifical college at Rome, to whom St. Augustine wrote to in
- LONGINUS(1), bishop of Ascalon not long efore the council of Nicaea, since a letter to im by Alexander patriarch of Alexandria i
- LONYfirst (but doubtful) bishop of Kildare, according to the Red Book of Kildare. (Ware, Jr. Bps. " Kildare ;" Journ. Roy. I
- LOTHARIUStenth bishop of Belluno, 690 (Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Ital. x. 110, 215). Ughelli (v. 146) places him a century and a h
- LUA(1), Scotch saint, abbat and probably bishop of Lismore in Argyleshire, commemorated in the Scotch and Irish kalendars a
- LUBENTIUS(Lurentivs, Du Saussay), Jet. 13, presbyter in the diocese of Tréves in he reign of Constantius. His tradition, as ecord
- LUCANUS(1), or LUCIANUS, Marcionite Lucanvs, Pseudo-Tert. 18; Philast. 46, and so yrobably their source, the Syntagma of Hippoy
- LUCAS(1) (Luctrus), April 22, deacon, martyr in Persia with another deacon Mucius, and Parmenius, Helimenas, and Chrysotelus,
- LUCENTIUS(1), bishop, legate of pope Leo the Great to the East (Leo Magn. epp. 83, 85, 86 in Pat. Lat. liv.). With Paschasinus bi
- LUCHRAIDHis enumerated among the members of St. Patrick's household in a poem of the 11th century preserved in the Book of Lecan,
- LUCHTIGERN, LUCHTIGHERNA(LuvcTIGERNUS, LUIGHTIGHERN), Irish saint, disciple of St. Ruadhan of Lorha, and abbat of Inistymon, co. Clare. In the V
- LUCIA(1), Dec. 13, virgin and martyr 'at Syracuse, under the president Paschasius in the Diocletian persecution. (Mart. Vet.
- LUCIANISTAEheretics. (Epiph. Indic. Haer. in Pat. Gr. xli. 579 and Haer. xliii. 1; John of Damascus, Haer. cap. 43 in Pat. Gr. xciv
- LUCIANUS(1), African bishop, Cyp. Zp. 70, (Syn. Carth. de Bapt. Haer. 1.) [E. W. B.]
- LUCIDUS(1), bishop of Leontium in Sicily, received a letter from Gregory the Great. (Zpisé. lib. iii. indict. vi. 48 ; Migne, I
- LUCIFERUS LILbishop of Calaris (Cagliari), in Sardinia, a confessor whose dogmatic: zeal was too intolerant for Athanasius or Jerome,
- LUCILLAa lady of Spanish origin, who resided at Carthage, described as very wealthy and of a strong partisan temper, ' pecunios
- LUCILLUS(1), a deacon of Hippo Regius. (Aug. Ep. 84, Serm. 167, 3; Tillemont, vol. xiii. p- 251, note 22.) [Ho We?
- LUCINIUSa wealthy Spaniard of Baetica in the end of the 4th century. He was a man of influence and learning. He opposed the Zoro
- LUCIUS(1) L, bishop of Rome, after Cornelius, probably from June 25, A.D. 253, to March 5, 254, or thereabouts, during eight m
- LUCULLUSDonatist bishop of Hospita in Numidia in 411. (Coll. Carth. i. 133; Mon. Vet, Don. p. 415, ed. Oberthiir.) [Ewe
- LUDOWANUS, STthe patron saint of Ludgvan, near Penzance, in Cornwall. He was probably Irish. The parish feast is on the nearest Sunda
- LUGAIDUS(Latur), monk of St. Columba at Iona (Adamnan, Vit. S. Col. i. 22, ii. 5, 38). Dr. Reeves (S. Adamnan, 51, 111, 155) thi
- LUGBEUS MOCUMIN(Luenevs MocuMIN), friend and disciple of St. Columba at Iona, and in old age praepositus or prior of the monastery on t
- LUGHAIDH(1) (Luaanptvs), Irish saint, commemorated- Nov. 2. (Mart. Doneg. by Todd and Reeves, 295; Colgan, Acta SS. 169, c. 2, 1
- LUGHAIR(Lazreuarre, Lucar, Lucartus, Luecuir), Lobhar, the leper, or infirm, Irish saint, commemorated May 11 in the Irish kale
- LUGIDUSIrish bishop, who ordained to the priesthood St. Coemgen and St. Comgall in the sth century; he may have been at Connor.
- LUGNAT, LUGNA, LUGNAD, LUGNAED, LUGNATHAN, LUGNAUS(Loea, Logua, Luaunat, LUGHNATH), seventh son of Restitutus the Longobard, and Liamhain, sister of St. Patrick [LIAMHAIN
- LUICELL, LUICHELL(Luce 1a), virgin, Irish saint, daughter of Leinin, and venerated on March 6. ([Bricipa (3).] (O'Hanlon, Trish Saints, i
- LUICRIDH(Lucnranpivs, Lucurarpn), of Cill-luicridh (or Corcolig, Ann. Tig.), abbat ot Clonmacnoise, died A.D. 753 (Ann. Tig.) an
- LUIDO(Livpo, Lato), fifth in the list of bishops of Spires. He is one of the bishops of Bavaria and Alemannia to whom pope Gr
- LUIGHBHE(Luaeus), Irish saint, commemorated in art. Doneg. on Jan. 14. [J. G.]
- LUIGIDAMeic Coelboth, Irish saint, abbat of Clonfert. (Ann. Inisf. A.D. 558, ap. O'Conor, Rer, Hist. Scrip. ii. pt. ii. 7.) [J.
- LULLA(1), an abbat of the diocese of Winchester who attended the council of Clovesho in 803 (Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 546 ; Ke
- LULLINGCa priest of the diocese of Rochester who attended the council of Clovesho in 803 (Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 547; Kemble, C
- LULLO(Lut), an East Anglian abbat, who visited Alcuin, and reported to him the good conversation of the bishops Alheard and T
- LULLUSbishop or archbishop of Mainz, successor of St. Boniface, 755-786.
- LUMINOSUSabbat of the monastery of $8. Andrew and Thomas at Rimini. (Greg. Magn. Zpist. lib. ii. indict. x. 41-42; Migne, Ixxvii.
- LUNAPEIUSWelsh saint, disciple of St. Dubricius, and companion of St. Teilo on his return from Armorica (Ussher, Brit. Eccl. Ant.
- LUPELLUSdisciple and biographer of StFrodobertus abbat of Cella (Moutier-la-Celle), near Troyes, who died about 673. His work, w
- LUPENTIUS(popularly Louvent), saint and martyr, abbat of the church of St. Privatus: at Javouls, the origina] seat of the Mende b
- LUPERTIANUSbishop of Arezzo (Ughelli, i. 410; Cappelletti, xviii.), was engaged in 714 and 715 in a controversy with Adeodatus bish
- LUPIANUSconfessor in the 4th century, said to have been baptised by Hilary of Poictiers, to have died a few days afterwards, "in
- LUPICINUS(1) (Luricranus). Epiphanius: (Haer. 80, p. 1068) states that a general named Lupicianus put several Euphemites to death
- LUPITA(Luram, Lupair, Lururt), Irish saint, sister of St. Patrick, and said to have been carried into Ireland at the same time
- LUPULIANUSa friend, at whose request Jerome wrote his work on Hebrew names, A.D, 388. (Praef. in Lib. de Nom. Heb. in Hieron. Opp.
- LUPUS(1), a Cilician bishop mentioned by Athanasius in 356 with others of the Catholic party. (Zp. ad Episc. Aeg. § 8, in Pat
- LURACH DUANAIREIrish saint, son of Cuana, descended from Colla Uais, monarch of Ireland (Colgan, Acta SS. 223, c. 4, 367 a); his mother
- LUSCIUSa name, real or fictitious, given by Jerome to one of his detractors, who had' accused him of plagiarism (Praef. in Lib.
- LYCOMEDESlegendary disciple of the apostle John. The apocryphal Acts which bore the name of Leucius related that John accused Lyc
- LYONS, MARTYRS OFJune 2. Ado calls them Martyres Athanacenses from the name of the place Athanacus, where they suffered. The seventeenth