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Leobatius

abbot of Sénevière near Tours

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Feast: 16 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record

Who they were

In the neighbourhood of Tours in Gallia Lugdunensis, in present-day France, the commemoration of Saint Leobatius, abbot, who, placed by his master Saint Ursus at the head of the newly founded monastery of Sénevière, persevered in the highest holiness to a great old age.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 16 January as the abbot of the newly founded monastery of Sénevière near Tours, who persevered in holiness into great old age.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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