St. Leonard: I love just everything about him. A reader and dear benefactor sent this in. Thank you!
Feastday: November 6 Patron of political prisoners, imprisoned people, prisoners of war, and captives, women in labour, as well as horses [and donkeys, I'm sure!] Died: 559.
According to unreliable[!] sources, he was a Frank courtier who was converted by St. Remigius, refused the offer of a See from his godfather, King Clovis I, and became a monk at Micy. He lived as a hermit at Limoges and was rewarded by the king with all the land he could ride around on a donkey in a day for his prayers, which were believed to have brought the Queen through a difficult delivery safely. He founded Noblac monastery on the land so granted him, and it grew into the town of Saint-Leonard. He remained there evangelizing the surrounding area until his death. He is invoked by women in labor and by prisoners of war because of the legend that Clovis promised to release every captive Leonard visited. His feast day is November 6.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
How interesting! I never realized their were so many different saints, each with his or her own strengths, interests, and causes.
I read about St Leonard today in the British ‘Catholic Herald’ and immediately thought of you Father! The illustration shown there was of the church dedicated to the Saint in the French town named after him and I had not seen the illustration you have used before.
Fr. Byers, I was walking in the woods today and took a picture of what looks like a statue of the Blessed Mother holding the Infant Jesus. I thought you would like this since being in the woods and all. The picture is on our seminarian blog for the Diocese of Gaylord.
http://gaylordseminarians.blogspot.com/
>Sean the Gazelle