Leo Dupont | Venerable Leo Dupont, Holy Man of Tours

The Venerable Leo Dupont also known as The Holy Man of Tours lived in Tours at about the same time.

This devotion ( started by Sister Marie and then promoted by the Venerable Leo Dupont ) was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

There are several memorial societies and monuments to him throughout Canada and the United States, most notably the Leo Molmonument in Washington, D. C., near Dupont Circle.

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-Church of the Pilgrims. JPG | Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Church of the Pilgrims, Dupont Circle, D. C.

Twenty years later, the Venerable Leo Dupont initiated the nightly adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Tours in 1849, from where it spread within France.

The Venerable Leo Dupont

The adoration of the Eucharist within France grew in this period and there were interactions between Catholic figures who were enthusiastic about spreading the Eucharist e. g. Leo Dupont, Saint Jean Vianney and Saint Peter Julian Eymard, who in 1858 formed the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.

Interestingly, this time period in France saw the growth of a parallel Catholic devotion, namely the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus which was started in 1844 in Tours by Sister Marie of St Peter, was promoted by Leo Dupont and was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-inscription. jpg | Inscription on Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Dupont Circle, D. C ..

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-Relief. JPG | Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Dupont Circle, D. C ..

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )

* 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer ( d. 2006 )

* 1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator ( d. 1960 )

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

Algardi's large dramatic marble high-relief panel of Pope Leo and Attila ( 1646 – 53 ) for St Peter's Basilica was widely admired in his day, and reinvigorated the use of such marble reliefs.

* 1964 – Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

# Sybilla of Lusignan ( October – November 1198 – c. 1230 or 1252 ), married King Leo II of Armenia

* 1884 – Leo Frank, American factory superintendent, victim of lynching ( d. 1915 )

* 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.

* Leo Beenhakker ( 1979 – 81 )

* Leo Beenhakker ( 1989 – 91 )

* 1909 – Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation ( d. 1991 )

* 1605 – Pope Leo XI ( b. 1535 )

* Alexandra Tolstaya ( 1884 – 1979 ), daughter of Leo Tolstoy

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide ( Librium ), was discovered accidentally by Leo Sternbach in 1955, and made available in 1960 by Hoffmann – La Roche, which has also marketed diazepam ( Valium ) since 1963.

Emperor Leo VI ( 886 – 912 ) adoring Jesus Christ.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

* 457 – Majorian is crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by pope Leo I.

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist ( d. 2002 )

Belmont Abbey, officially named " Mary Help of Christians Abbey ," was founded in 1876 by Bishop Leo Haid, and still functions today.

A more subtle allusion exists to Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, as the novel The Winter Queen starts with a suicide in 1876, exactly the same year in which Anna throws herself under a train.

Founded by Bishop Leo Haid in 1876, it is the daughter abbey to St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and mother abbey to St. Leo's Abbey in Tampa, Florida as well as Mary, Mother of the Church Abbey in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1874 he was honoured by Pope Pius IX with the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and in 1876 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX and St. Gregory the Great ; he also received the Grand Cross of Pius IX from Pope Leo XIII.

He was declared Venerable by Pope Clement XIII on 8 February 1759 and beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 12 November 1893.

In March 1824, Pope Leo XII pronounced her Venerable ( the first step on the path to canonised sainthood ), and on 18 September 1864 Pope Pius IX declared her Blessed.