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P.R.E.S.S.

Praefectura Rerum Oeconomicarum Sanctae Sedis--Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

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Friday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Leonard of Limoges (d. 559). He was a hermit-abbot who was a convert of St. Remigius. He was a French courtier offered a bishopric, but became a recluse at Micy, France. He then lived at Limoges, France, and he was given land by the royal court on which he…

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