Transparente
de la Catedral de Toledo (1729-1732). En el lateral izquierdo la imagen de
Santa Leocadia, esculpida en mármol, obra de Narciso Tomé.
Sainte Léocadie de Tolède
Vierge et Martyre
(† 303)
Sainte Léocadie était de Tolède, en Espagne. Dès son enfance, elle s'adonna avec tant de dévotion au service de Notre-Seigneur, qu'on la regardait comme un modèle d'innocence et de piété. Le persécuteur Dacien la fit comparaître à son tribunal, et, sachant qu'elle était de haute condition, il lui reprocha de s'être attachée à une religion vile et méprisable. Léocadie lui répondit qu'elle s'estimait très heureuse et très honorée d'être la servante de Jésus-Christ, et que ni les supplices ni la mort ne pourraient la faire renoncer à sa religion.
Le tyran ordonna de la fouetter comme une esclave, et la fit reconduire, toute sanglante, dans une noire prison, en attendant de plus cruelles tortures. Sur le chemin, elle rencontra des chrétiens qui s'apitoyaient sur son sort: "Réjouissez-vous plutôt, leur dit-elle, car c'est une grande grâce d'endurer quelque chose pour Jésus-Christ." Cependant Léocadie apprit, dans sa prison, toutes les cruautés que l'on exerçait en Espagne contre les chrétiens. Elle en fut tellement saisie de douleur, qu'elle pria son Époux céleste de la retirer du monde. Sa prière fut exaucée; elle expira bientôt en baisant une Croix qu'elle avait miraculeusement gravée sur la pierre avec son doigt.
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950.
Sainte Léocadie Vierge et martyre à Tolède (+ v. 303)
Elle est la patronne de Tolède de temps immémorial. Mise en demeure de renier sa foi, elle fut fouettée publiquement, dévêtue pour l'humilier comme une esclave, elle qui était de noble condition. Elle fut jetée ensuite, inanimée, dans un cachot jusqu'à en mourir. Nous connaissons, sous son vocable, une ancienne basilique reconstruite en son honneur en 618. De nombreux documents liturgiques lui donnent le titre de "confesseur du Christ" en particulier "l'oracional visigoto" qui contient vingt-neuf prières à "l'illustre confesseur Léocadie."
À Tolède en Espagne, peut-être en 304, sainte Léocadie, vierge et martyre, célèbre par sa confession du Christ.
Martyrologe romain
Elle connut l’humiliation, elle connut la souffrance longue et sans espoir d’un cachot sordide. Elle fait partie de cette cohorte de témoins de la foi, de l’amour et du don total à ce Christ qui était toute sa vie. Elle fait partie de tous ceux qui, sur tous les continents et à travers vingt siècles, ont préféré la croix dans la lumière de la résurrection. A nous de les rejoindre dans ce quotidien qui est aussi parfois un chemin de croix, celui que le Christ nous offre à la mesure de nos forces.
Lectionnaire Emmaüs
SOURCE :
http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/239/Sainte-Leocadie.html
Sainte Léocadie de Tolède
Vierge et martyre
(† 303)
Léocadie était
de Tolède, en Espagne. Dès son enfance, elle s'adonna avec tant de dévotion au
service de Notre-Seigneur, qu'on la regardait comme un modèle d'innocence et de
piété. Le persécuteur Dacien la fit comparaître à son tribunal, et, sachant
qu'elle était de haute condition, il lui reprocha de s'être attachée à une
religion vile et méprisable.
Léocadie
lui répondit qu'elle s'estimait très heureuse et très honorée d'être la
servante de Jésus-Christ, et que ni les supplices ni la mort ne pourraient la
faire renoncer à sa religion.
Le tyran ordonna de la fouetter comme une esclave, et la fit reconduire dans
une prison, en attendant de plus cruelles tortures. Sur le chemin, elle
rencontra des chrétiens qui s'apitoyaient sur son sort : « Réjouissez-vous plutôt, leur dit-elle, car c'est une grande grâce
d'endurer quelque chose pour Jésus-Christ. » Cependant Léocadie apprit,
dans sa prison, toutes les cruautés que l'on exerçait en Espagne contre les
chrétiens. Elle en fut tellement saisie de douleur, qu'elle pria son Époux
céleste de la retirer du monde. Sa prière fut exaucée ; elle expira bientôt en
baisant une croix qu'elle avait miraculeusement gravée sur la pierre avec son
doigt.
©Evangelizo.org
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2015
SOURCE : http://levangileauquotidien.org/main.php?language=FR&module=saintfeast&localdate=20151209&id=233&fd=0
Espaldar
de la sillería del coro alto de la catedral de Toledo (España) realizado por
Felipe Bigarny en el siglo XVI
Saint Leocadia of Toledo
Also
known as
Locaie of Toledo
Memorial
9
December
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Slave. Beaten and imprisoned for
refusing to denounce her faith during
the Diocletian persecutions.
Scheduled for torture and
either apostasy or martyrdom,
she learned of the abuse being suffered by the 13 year old Saint Eulalia
of Merida. Leocadia prayed for God to
remove her from a world where such evil occurred; she died soon
after, of no particular cause, without being touched by her torturers.
Ancient and popular cultus developed
in Toledo, Spain.
Died
c.303 at Toledo, Spain of
(super) natural causes
relics translated 26 April 1589
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
Toledo, Spain,
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Toledo, Spain, archdiocese of
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a tower,
indicating she died in prison
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St. Leocadia
Virgin and martyr, d. 9 December, probably 304, in the Diocletian persecution. The last great persecution gave the Church in Spain a succession
of martyrs, who from 303 until 305 suffered death for the Christian Faith. In the historical
martyrologies of the ninth century, St. Leocadia of Toledo
is honoured among these martyrs on 9 December. Her name is not mentioned by Prudentius
in his hymn on the Spanish
Martyrs, but in very early times
there was a church dedicated
to her at Toledo. In the first
half of the seventh century this church
was mentioned as the meeting-place of the Fourth Synod
of Toledo in 633, as well as of
the fifth in 636, and the sixth in 638 (Concil. Toletanum
IV, mentions the "basilica beatissimae et sanctae Confessoris Leocadiae";
Mansi, "Concil. Coll.", X, 615). Long before that
date, therefore, Leocadia must have been publicly honoured as a martyr. The basilica
in question was evidently erected over her grave. There is no doubt of the historical
fact of her martyrdom, whilst the date of 9 December for her annual commemoration obviously
rests on the tradition of the Church of Toledo.
More recently compiled Acts
relate that Leocadia was filled with a desire for martyrdom through the story of the martyrdom of St. Eulalia.
By order of the governor, Decianus, who is described in the martyrology as the most furious persecutor
of the Christians in Spain, she was seized and cruelly tortured in order to make
her apostatize, but she remained steadfast and was sent back to prison, where she died from the effects of the torture. A church
was built over her grave, besides which two others at Toledo
are dedicated to her. She is the
patroness of the diocese, and 9 December is still given as her feast in the Roman
Martyrology. She is represented
with a tower, to signify that
she died in prison.
Sources
FLOREZ,
Espana Sagrada, VI, 315-17; LA FUENTE,
Historia eclesiastica de Espana, 2nd ed., I (Madrid, 1873), 335-7; SURIUS,
Vita Sanctorum, 9 December, XII, 199; BUTLER,
Lives of the Saints, 9 December.
Kirsch, Johann Peter.
"St. Leocadia." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9.
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 9 Dec. 2015
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09173b.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F. Holbrook. O Saint Leocadia, and all ye holy Martyrs, pray for us.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil
Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2021 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
December 9
St. Leocadia, Virgin and Martyr
A.D. 304
THE NAME of St. Leocadia is highly reverenced in
Spain. This holy virgin was a native of Toledo, and was apprehended by an order
of Dacian, the cruel governor under Dioclesian, in 304. Her constancy was tried
by torments, and she died in prison. For, hearing of the martyrdom of St.
Eulalia, she prayed that God would not prolong her exile, but unite her
speedily with her holy friend in his glory; in which prayer she happily expired
in prison. Three famous churches in Toledo bear her name, and she is honoured
as principal patroness of that city. In one of those churches most of the
councils of Toledo were held; in the fourth of these she is honourably
mentioned. Her relics were kept in that church with great respect, till, in the
incursions of the Moors, they were conveyed to Oviedo, and some years
afterwards to the abbey of St. Guislain, near Mons in Haynault. By the
procurement of King Philip II. they were translated back to Toledo with great
pomp, that king, his son Prince Philip, his daughter Elizabeth, and the empress
Mary his sister, being present at their solemn reception in the great church
there on the 26th of April, 1589.
St. Leocadia, being called to the trial, exerted
all heroic Christian virtues, because she had made her whole life an
apprenticeship of them, and their practice had been familiar to her. Some
people say it was easy for Christians to be totally disengaged from the world,
and to give themselves up to prayer and penance when they daily and hourly
expected to be called upon to lay down their lives for Christ. But were we not
blinded by the world, and if the enchantment of its follies, the near prospect
of eternity, the uncertainty of the hour of our death, and the repeated
precepts of Christ were equally the subjects of our meditation, these motives
would produce in us the same fervent dispositions which they did in the
primitive Christians. How much soever men now-a-days are strangers to these
gospel truths, for want of giving themselves leisure to consider them,
Christians are bound to be totally disentangled from worldly affections in
order to unite their hearts closely to God, that they may receive the abundant
graces and favours which He communicates to souls which open themselves to him.
They are bound to renounce sensuality, and the disorders and vanities of the
world, and to be animated with a spirit of meekness, peace, patience, charity,
and affectionate good-will towards all men, zeal, piety, and devotion. They are
bound to be prepared in the disposition of their hearts to leave all things,
and to suffer all things for his love.
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume
XII: December. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE
: http://www.bartleby.com/210/12/091.html
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Santa Leocadia di Toledo
Vergine e martire
Martirologio
Romano: A Toledo in Spagna, santa Leucadia, vergine e martire, insigne per la
sua testimoniaza di fede in Cristo.
Esistono
poche notizie su di lei. Il culto nacque presso il suo sepolcro nel cimitero
romano di Toledo su cui, forse, nell'epoca bizantina, sorse un'edicola,
sostituita, ai tempi di re Sisebuto e dell'arcivescovo Elladio (618), da un
tempio a lei dedicato. In questo ambiente si riunirono alcuni concili tenuti
nella città di Toledo, durante il sec. VII e vi ricevettero sepoltura gli
ultimi arcivescovi visigoti toledani, da s. Elladio a s. Giuliano.
La passio di Leocadia oggi conosciuta fu scritta nella metà del sec. VII, epoca
a cui debbono attribuirsi i testi liturgici del suo culto. Secondo questa
passio, Leocadia fu imprigionata come cristiana dal prefetto Daciano, inviato
dagli imperatori Diocleziano e Massimiano; mentre aspettava, rinchiusa, la
sentenza di Daciano, mori in modo incruento.
Il vescovo Cixila (sec. VIII) nella sua Vita di s. lldefonso, racconta che il
giorno della festa di s. Leocadia (9 dic), quando l'arcivescovo e il re si
trovavano con molti fedeli nel tempio della santa, si alzò la lastra del
sepolcro e apparve Leocadia che parlò all'arcivescovo, lodandolo per i lavori
compiuti a glorificazione della Madre di Dio. L'arcivescovo, ripresosi dalla
sorpresa, riuscì a tagliare un pezzo del velo che ricopriva la santa, che
rimase come una reliquia insigne della chiesa di Toledo.
Nella seconda metà del sec. VIII, durante la persecuzione di Abd-er-rahman, le
spoglie di Leocadia vennero trasferite da Toledo a Oviedo, dove fu eretto un
tempio in suo onore. Alla fine del sec. XI tali reliquie furono trasferite in
Belgio da un conte di Hainaut e, fin dal sec. XII, si sa che erano venerate
nell'abbazia di Saint-Ghislain. Mentre imperversavano le guerre di religione
del sec. XVI, essendo imminente il pericolo di profanazione, per metterle al
sicuro, furono riportate al luogo d'origine e giunsero a Toledo, dopo un
viaggio pieno di peripezie, alla fine dell'apr. del 1587, e furono deposte
nella cattedrale, dove ancora oggi sono venerate, in una ricchissima urna
d'argento.
Nel Martirologio Romano la festa di Leocadia è iscritta alla data tradizionale
del 9 dicembre.
Autore: Juan Francisco Rivera Recio
ICONOGRAFIA
Il culto di s. Leocadia è legato esclusivamente a Toledo, città di cui è
patrona, e alla Spagna, anche se esso si diffuse in alcune regioni francesi:
come a Soissons, dove si pretendeva di possedere sue reliquie nell'abbazia di
Saint-Médard.
Nell'iconografia è rappresentata con la palma del martirio ed ha come
attributi: la torre, in cui fu rinchiusa, le catene della prigionia e le
verghe, con le quali fu torturata. In tale modo è raffigurata in un affresco
dell'oratorio del Cristo de la Luz a Toledo, risalente al sec. XII; in una
miniatura dei Miracles de Notre Dame, opera di Jean Pucelle (sec. XIV), ora
alla Biblioteca Nazionale di Parigi; in una statua, opera del Berruguete. che
si trova nella chiesa del Cristo de la Vega a Toledo (sec. XV) e in una tela di
Pantoja de la Cruz (sec. XVII), nella cattedrale di Cordova.
La santa è anche legata al culto di s. Ildefonso, poiché, secondo la leggenda,
sarebbe apparsa al santo nella cattedrale di Toledo ed egli avrebbe tagliato un
lembo del suo velo per accertarsi della realtà della visione. Questa scena
appare quindi in una miniatura della Vita Sancti Ildefonsi e in un'altra del
codice dei concili di Toledo, ambedue alla Biblioteca Nazionale di Madrid e
opere di anonimi miniaturisti del sec. XIII; nella pala d'altare con Storie del
santo, opera di Fernando Gallego (sec. XV), nella cattedrale di Zamora e in una
tela di Pedro Orrente (sec. XVII), nella sacrestia della cattedrale di Toledo.
Autore: Antonietta Cardinali
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Den hellige Leokadia av Toledo ( -~303)
Minnedag: 9.
desember
Skytshelgen for Toledo
Den hellige Leokadia
(Leocadia) ble født på 200-tallet i en fornem familie i Toledo i Spania. I
følge den førkonsiliære utgaven av Martyrologium Romanum var hun en ivrig
kristen jomfru, og da kristenforfølgelsene brøt ut under keiser Diokletian
(284-305), nektet hun å avsverge sin tro. Hun ble da torturert under legaten
Dacian, sannsynligvis i Toledo i år 303 eller 304. Hun ble pisket offentlig og
avkledd for å ydmyke henne som en slave. Da hun tross alle lidelser ikke
avsverget troen, ble hun kastet i fengsel. Hun var i fengselet da hun hørte om
den hellige Eulalias
martyrdød, og hun ba om at hun selv måtte bli like verdig til å dø for Kristus.
Senere døde hun i fengselet av sine skader, etter tradisjonen den 9. desember
304.
Leokadia ble bisatt i Toledo,
og hennes kult er kjent der fra 400-tallet, og hun er byens skytshelgen. Hun
nevnes ikke av Prudentius i hans hymne om de spanske martyrene, men i svært
tidlige tider var det tre gamle kirker i Toledo viet til henne. De skal etter
tradisjonen ligge på stedene hvor hennes hjem, hennes fengsel og hennes
begravelsessted lå. Sistnevnte ble i første halvdel av 600-tallet nevnt som
møtestedet for den fjerde synoden i Toledo i 633, den femte i 636 og den sjette
i 638. Lenge før det må altså Leokadia ha vært æret som martyr.
Hennes relikvier ble
lenge oppbevart i den kirken kong Sisebutus bygde. Men senere, under maurernes
angrep, ble relikviene flyttet, først til Oviedo, så til klosteret
Saint-Ghislain ved Mons (Bergen) i Belgia. Kong Filip II brakte dem tilbake til
Toledo under store æresbevisninger den 26. april 1589.
Den hellige Ildefons, som på
600-tallet var erkebiskop av Toledo, skal ha hatt en visjon eller drøm hvor
Leokadia steg opp av sin grav for å takke ham, i Himmeldronningens navn, fordi
han hadde skrevet avhandlingen De virginitate Sanctae Mariae («Om den
hellige Marias
jomfruelighet»). Leokadias kult var opplagt veletablert i hans levetid.
Hennes minnedag er
dødsdagen 9. desember og hennes navn står i Martyrologium Romanum. I Flandern
er hun kjent som St. Locaie. Hun avbildes med et tårn for å symbolisere at hun
døde i fengsel. I 2004 feires 1700-årsjubileet for hennes død i Toledo,
jubileumsåret startet på hennes minnedag den 9. desember 2003.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Bentley, Butler (XII), Benedictines, Bunson, Melchers, CE,
CSO, Patron Saints SQPN, Infocatho, elalmanaque.com, magnificat.ca -
Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Sist oppdatert: 2004-04-13 18:43
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/ltoledo
† ca
303 Leocadia van Toledo
Leocadia (ook Léocadie, Léochade of Locaie) van
Toledo, Spanje; maagd en martelares; †
ca 303.
Feest 9 december.
Zij werd het slachtoffer
van de christenvervolgingen onder keizer Diocletianus (284-305). Toen ze
standvastig aan haar geloof in Christus bleef vasthouden, werd ze op last van
stadhouder Dacianus gegeseld en vervolgens in de gevangenis geworpen. Sommige
bronnen zeggen dat zij daar is gestorven voor een kruis dat zij op de wand van
haar cel had gekrast. Anderen daarentegen menen, dat ze in een afgrond is geworpen.
Verering & Cultuur
Haar verering in de Spaanse stad Toledo gaat nawijsbaar terug tot de vijfde
eeuw. In 714 werden relieken van haar overgebracht naar de abdij van
St-Ghislain, Noord-Frankrijk. Vandaar dat zij ook in Vlaanderen verering
geniet.
Zij is patrones van Toledo; haar voorspraak wordt ingeroepen tegen de pest.
Zij wordt afgebeeld in een toren of gevangenis; met gesels in haar nabijheid;
kruis in de hand.
Bronnen
[101a; 102; 106; 200/2»12.09; 293p:237; 500; Dries van den Akker
s.j/2007.11.20]
© A. van den Akker
s.j.
SOURCE : http://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/12/09/12-09-0303-leocadia.php
Voir aussi : http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/decembre/leocadie.pdf
http://www.architoledo.org/SantaLeocadia/SantaLeocadia1
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