Site logo

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Ursus and Leobatius, abbots in Berry and the Touraine, around AD 500

Saint ID

S00137

Reported Death Not Before

470

Reported Death Not After

530

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00332Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Ursus and Leobatius (abbots in the Berry and the Touraine, around AD 500, S00137): it presents Ursus as the ideal head of a family of monasteries, and briefly mentions his saintly follower, Leobatius. Gregory, Life of the Fathers Book 18, written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Ursus and Leobatius.
E00334Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Ursus and Leobatius (abbots in Berry and the Touraine, around AD 500, S00137), tells of miracles at the tomb of Ursus at Loches, and of the abbacy and death of Leobatius at Sennevières, both in the Touraine (north-west Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (18.3), written in Latin in Tours, 573/594.
E05870Gregory of Tours writes the Life of the Fathers, collecting the lives of twenty Gallic bishops, abbots and recluses; written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview/list of the twenty Lives.