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SAINT LUIDHARD, BISHOP OF SENLIS - 24 FEBRUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 24th of February WELCOME! SAINT LUIDHARD, BISHOP OF SENLIS Saint Luidhard, Bishop of Senlis (Silvanectum) in France, accompanied the Frankish king's daughter Bertha to England. He is commemorated on February 24 and May 7, and also known as Letardus, Lethardus, Leothardus, Ledbardus, Liudhardus, Luidhardus, French: St-Létard .  (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Luidhard may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. ➡️ More information about Saint Luidhard Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

ST LETHARD, BISHOP OF SENLIS, CONFESSOR - 24 FEBRUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 24th of February WELCOME! SAINT LETHARD, BISHOP OF SENLIS, CONFESSOR (Called by Venerable Bede, Luidhard .)  Bede, William of Malmesbury, and other historians relate, that when Bertha, daughter of Charibert, king of the French, was married to Ethelbert, king of Kent, about the year 566, this holy French prelate accompanied her into England, and resided at Canterbury in quality of almoner and chaplain to the queen.  HIS NAME IN THE RECORDS Though his name does not occur in the imperfect catalogue of the bishops of Senlis, which is found in the ancient copy of St Gregory’s sacramentary, which belonged to that church in 880, nor in the old edition of Gallia Christiana, yet, upon the authority of the English historians, it is inserted in the new edition, the thirteenth, from St Regulus, the founder of that see, one of the Roman missionaries in Gaul about the time of St Dionysius.  The relics of St Regulu...