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   Justification   
      
   Jesus Christ died for all mankind; He truly died that "He might taste   
   death for all." (Hebrews ii. 9.) Yet we know that all men will not be   
   saved, but only those who do His will; for we read in St. Paul: "And   
   being consummated, He became to all that obey Him the cause of eternal   
   salvation." (Hebrews v. 9.) And so, notwithstanding Christ's   
   redemption, it is stated in the gospel that some "shall go into   
   everlasting punishment." (St. Matt. xxv. 46.) St. Paul did not say   
   that God will save all men, but, "Who will have all men to be saved"   
   (1 Timothy ii. 4), implying thereby that for salvation, man's will and   
   co-operation is required to fulfil the conditions, and use the means   
   appointed by God Himself for the purpose.   
      
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   2 October – Saint Leodegar of Autun   
      
   (c 625-679)   
   Bishop of Autun, France and Martyr, Monk, Abbot, Reformer, apostle of   
   the poor – born in c 615 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France   
   and died on 2 October 679 by being murdered in 678 in the woods in   
   Sarcing, Somme, Picardie, France. Patronages – Millers, invoked   
   against blindness, Eye disease, Eye problems, Sore eyes and 5 cities.   
   He was the son of Saint Sigrada, his mother and the brother of Saint   
   Warinus and is also known as St Leodegarius and St Leger.   
      
   Leodegar was the son of a high-ranking Burgundian nobleman, Bodilon,   
   Count of Poitiers and Paris and St Sigrada of Alsace, who later became   
   a nun at Sainte-Marie de Soissons.   
      
   He spent his childhood in Paris at the court of Clotaire II, King of   
   the Franks and was educated at the palace school. When he was older he   
   was sent to Poitiers, where there was a long-established Cathedral   
   school, to study under his maternal uncle, Desiderius (Dido), Bishop   
   of Poitiers. At the age of 20 his uncle made him an Archdeacon.   
   Shortly afterwards he became a Priest and in 650, with the Bishop’s   
   permission, became a Monk at the Monastery of St Maxentius in Poitou.   
   He was soon elected Abbot and initiated reforms including the   
   introduction of the Benedictine rule.   
      
   Around 656, about the time of the usurpation of Grimoald in Austrasia   
   and the banishment of the boy-heir Dagobert II, Leodegar was called to   
   the Neustrian court by the widowed Queen Bathilde to assist in the   
   government of the united kingdoms and in the education of her   
   children. Then in 659 he was named to the See of Autun, in Burgundy.   
   He again undertook the work of reform and held a council at Autun in   
   661. The council denounced Manichaeism and was the first to adopt the   
   Trinitarian Athanasian Creed. He made reforms among the secular clergy   
   and in the religious communities and had three baptisteries erected in   
   the city. The Church of Saint-Nazaire was enlarged and embellished and   
   a refuge established for the indigent. Leodegar also caused the public   
   buildings to be repaired and the old Roman walls of Autun to be   
   restored. His authority at Autun placed him as a leader among the   
   Franco-Burgundian nobles.   
      
   Meanwhile, in 660 the Austrasian nobles demanded a king and young   
   prince Childeric II was sent to them through the influence of Ebroin,   
   the mayor of the palace in Neustria. The queen withdrew, from a court   
   that was Ebroin’s in all but name, to an abbey she had founded at   
   Chelles, near Paris. On the death of King Clotaire III in 673, a   
   dynastic struggle ensued, with rival claimants as pawns; Ebroin raised   
   Theoderic to the throne but Leodegar and the other Bishops supported   
   the claims of his elder brother Childeric II, who, by the help of the   
   Austrasians and Burgundians, was eventually made king. Ebroin was   
   interned at Luxeuil and Theoderic sent to St Denis.   
      
   Leodegar remained at court, guiding the young king. In 673 or 675,   
   however, Leodegar was also sent to Luxeuil. The cause, a protest   
   against the marriage of Childeric and his first cousin, is a   
   hagiographic convention; as a leader of the Austrasian and Burgundian   
   nobles, Leodegar was easily represented as a danger by his enemies.   
   When Childeric II was murdered at Bondi in 675, by a disaffected   
   Frank, Theoderic III was installed as king in Neustria, making   
   Leudesius his mayor. Ebroin took advantage of the chaos to make his   
   escape from Luxeuil and hasten to the court. In a short time Ebroin   
   caused Leudesius to be murdered and became mayor once again, still   
   Leodegar’s implacable enemy.   
      
   About 675 the Duke of Champagne, the Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne and   
   the Bishop of Valence, stirred up by Ebroin, attacked Autun and   
   Leodegar fell into their hands. At Ebroin’s instigation, Leodegar’s   
   eyes were gouged out and the sockets cauterized and his tongue was cut   
   out. Some years later Ebroin persuaded the king that Childeric had   
   been assassinated at the instigation of Leodegar. The Bishop was   
   seized again and, after a mock trial, was degraded and condemned to   
   further exile, at Fécamp, in Normandy. Near Sarcing he was led out   
   into a forest on Ebroin’s order and beheaded.   
      
   A dubious testament drawn up at the time of the council of Autun has   
   been preserved as well as the Acts of the council. A letter which he   
   caused to be sent to his mother after his mutilation is likewise   
   extant.   
      
   In 782, his relics were translated from the site of his death, Sarcing   
   in Artois, to the site of his earliest hagiography – the Abbey of St   
   Maxentius (Saint-Maixent) near Poitiers. Later they were removed to   
   Rennes and thence to Ebreuil, which place took the name of Saint-Léger   
   in his honour. Some relics are still kept in the Cathedral of Autun   
   and the Grand Séminaire of Soissons. In 1458 Cardinal Rolin caused his   
   feast day to be observed as a holy day of obligation.   
      
   For sources to his biography, there are two early Lives, drawn from   
   the same lost source (Krusch 1891) and also two later ones (one of   
   them in verse).   
      
   Historically there was a custom among wealthy British merchants to   
   sell in May, spend the summer outside of London, then to return on St   
   Leger’s Day. This gave rise to the saying used in regards to financial   
   trading markets, “Sell in May and go away and come on back on St   
   Leger’s Day.”   
      
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   Saint Quote:   
   All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of   
   living together happily united.   
   -- Blessed Margaret d'Youville   
      
   “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to   
   you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my   
   heavenly Father.” …Matthew 18:10   
      
      
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