St. Leander of Seville (550-600)
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(Franciscan Media) Leander was born in Spain Cartagena of a family that included three other sibling Saints: Isidore, Fulgentius and Florentina — Leander became a Monk at Seville and later Bishop of the Holy See.
Saint Leander of Seville, is remembered for revising and unifying the Spanish liturgy as a way to reinforce the faith of other Spaniards and as an antidote against the heresy of Arianism which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. By the end of Leander’s life, Christianity flourished in Spain at a time of political and religious unrest.
Leander presided over the ‘Third Council of Toledo’ in 589 and introduced the saying the Nicene Creed at Mass so that Christians could continually be reminded that “God is the First and the Last, the beginning and the end of everything. The Credo begins with God the Father, for the Father is the first divine person of the Most Holy Trinity–Our creed begins with the creation of heaven and earth, for creation is the beginning and foundation of all God’s works.”
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