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Leoluca
Calabrian abbot
SaintFull write-upByzantine EmpireBasilian monksPre-congregation
Feast: 1 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
815
Died
915
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the monastery of Avena on the slopes of Mount Mercurio in Calabria, Saint Leoluca, abbot of Monte Mula, who shone in the hermit life as in the common life, following the rules of the Eastern monks.
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 1 March as an abbot of Monte Mula who lived both as a hermit and in community under Eastern monastic rules.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 1 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1132902 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Leoluca (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.