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tical Catholic shall, as long as he fails to practise his Leap Yeftr. See Calkndab, Revoric of the. religion, hold any office in the league. The pope has Leayenworth, Diocese of (Leavenwobthensis),

At his request, ten years later the Holy See divided


 * J m a 'tt a i.' i. r^v x 'x i_ i. the dioccse into three: Wichita, Concordia, and Lea V-

Leander of Se^e, Saint, bishop of that city, b. at enworth. Leavenworth was then restricted to the 43

Carthage about 534, of a Roman family estabhshed m counties lying east of Republic, Ooud, Ottawa, Saline,

that city; d at Seville, 13 March, 600,or 601. Some McPherson, Harvey, Se^wick, and Sumner Ooxmiiea.

historians claim that hw father Seyenan was duke or j^^ diocese had an are* of 28,687 sq. m., with a total

governor of Carthage, but St. Isidore simply states population in 1890, of 901,536. Authorised by the Holy

that he was a citizen of that city. The famihr emi- §ee^ Bishop Fink on 29 May, 1891, took up his residence

grated from Cartlmge about o54 and went to Seville. ^ j^^^,^ ci^y, Kans., and the dioce»B was named

The eminent worth of the children of .Se venan would ^fter this city for some years. Apostolic letters dated

seem to indicate that they were reared m distinguished j j^ 1397^ further diminished the territory of the

wirroundmgs Seyenan had three sons, Leander Isi- diocese in favour of Concordia and Wichita. It now

dore, and Fulgentius and one daughter, Florentma. includes only the Counties of Anderson, Osage, Potta-

St. Loander and St. Isidore both became bishops of watomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Wyandotte, Jackson,

Seville; St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Carthagena, and St. Jefferson, Linn, Lyon, Marshall, Miami, Nemaha, Atl

Florentma, a nun who directed forty convents and one ^hison. Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin,

thousand nuns. It has been also believed, but wrongly, Johnson, and Leavenworth ; an arek of 12,594 sq. miles, that Theodosia, another daufjhter of Sevenan, became jhe first missionary to the wild Indians of the plains,

the wife of the V^igothic kmg, Leovigild lender ^jthin the present borders of Kansas, was Father Juan

became at first a Benedictme monk, and then in 579 ^e Padilla. He obtained the martyr's crown just

Bishop of Seville. In the meantune he founded a fifty years after Columbus discovered the New Worid.

oelebraledschwl, which soon became a centre of learn- xhe firsv permanent Indian missions in these parts

M and orthodoxy. He assisted the Princes In^n- ^ere established by the Jesuit Fathers among the Pot-

this to convert her husband Hermenegild, the eldest tawatomies and Osages. The latter originSly dwelt

son of Loovigild, and defended the convert against his ^^ both sides of theMissouri. They knew of Father

father's cruel reprisals. In endeavouring to save his Marquette and had implored Father Gravier to preach

country from Arianism, Leander showed him^lf an to them. Two Franciscan friars had been among

orthodox Christian and a far-sighted patriot. Ebciled them in 1745. Bishop Duboure promised them mis-

bjrLeoyi^ild, he withdrew to Byzantium f^^^ sionaries in 1820. The Pottawatomies came from

582. It IS possible but not proved, that ho sought to Michigan and Indiana. Some hundreds of them had

rouse theEmperorTibenustotakeuparmsagainstthe been baptized by the Rev. S. T. Badin of Kentucky,

Anan king: m anv case the attempt was without the first priest ordained in the United States. In In-

result. He profited, however, by his stay at Byzan- ^i^na. Father Descilles was succeeded among the Pot- •

tium to compose important works agamst Ananism, tawatomies by Father Petit, who accompanied them

and there became acquainted with the future Gregory to the confines of their new reservation in the Indian

the Great, then le^te of Pelagius II at the Byzantine Territory, which then included Kansas. The Indian

court. A close friendship thenceforth united the two converts were confirmed by Bishop P. Kenrick in 1843,

men, and the correspondence of St. Gregory with St. ^nd by Bishop Barron in 1845. An Indian priest of the

Leander remains one of the latter s great titles to Oklahoma Diocese is descended from the Pottawato-

honour. It is not known exactly when Lender re- ^ies and was bom in I^nsas. In 1845 by the zealous

tomed from exJe. L^vigild put to death his son eflfortsofthe Jesuit missionaries, Catholic prayer-books

Hermenegild m 585, and himself died in 589. in the Pottawatomie dialect were given to the Indians.

In this decisive hour for the future of Spam, Leander Manual trainmg schools for giris and boys had been

did most t» ensure the religious unity, the fervent established some years previously. The latter were

faith, and the bngd culture on which was based its conducted by the Jesuits. Bishop Rosati wrote from

kter greatncM. He had a share m the converaon of Europe that Gregory XVI would be delighted to have

Reccared, and never ceased to exercise over him a ^ SacW Heart school among the IndW In the deep and beneficial influence At the Third Council g^r 1841 the Religious of thi Sacred Heart opened

of Toledo where Visigothic Spam abjured Arianism, ^ g^hool among the Pottawatomies under the leader-

Leander dehvered the closing sermon On his return ship of Mother Philippine-Rose Duchesne. Manual

from this council, Leander convened an imp^nt training schools were^tablished among the Osages

svnod m his metropolitan city of ScviHe (Cone. Hi«p., -^ ^^f jj^^ ^3^ the boys' school was underSie

I), and never afterwards ceased his efforts to consoli- conduct of the Jesuits; but the giris' school was in

date the work, in which his brother and succe^r St. charge of the Sisters of Loretto. Isidore was ^ foUow him. Leander received the pal- j^^^g^ ^^s under the jurisdiction of the ecclesias-

hum in August, 599. There remain unfortunately of tical superiors of Louisiana until St. Louis was made

this writer superior to his brother Isidore, only two ^^ episcopal see. The Vicariate Apostolic of the In-

works: De institutione virgmum et contemptu dian Territory east of the Rocky Mountains included

mundi a monastic rule composed for his sister, and the present states of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma;

Homilia ,^fp^""'?P?^..ecclesia; ob conversionem that part of North and South Dakota west of the

P^.w'^'Ti^'^'r^^ St. Isidore wrote of his Missouri River, Wyoming, Montana, and a part of

I^Tl^ Ii..nl 1^1^ T^'Z ^^^.^^'^^ ^l^ eminent Colorado. It was placed uSder R t. Rev. John B.^idge,

J^«o ^l L f /?^ ^-^ ^^ w J'n"f2''^ ^y ^'^u ^" S.J., who was anointed vicar Apostolic, and conte-

\^^\^^L^liVJ^ and zeal the Gothic people hiive crated Bishop ofliWnia. in St. Ix)uis, 25 Mareh, 1851.

been converted from Amnism to the Catholic faith" Accompanied by Father Paul Ponziglione, 8. J., who

(Descnpt.eccles.,xxviu). ,„ ^, „ , was to devote himself for fortv years t?the Indians and

Ao1.^:'colfJS^^'^T^4An;f^^^ lt?/^^^>^.^il'^ settle!^ of the new ^^cariate Bishop

orada, IX ; Bodrret.L Vco/c chritienne de SHUle 9ou3 la mo- D/liesK amved among the Pottawatomies on the Kan-

norcAte dea V^tht (Paris. 1 855) ; Mo.vtalembert. Le« Moin^a sas Ki ver, where now stands St. Marv's College, in May

i^'S^IG^ Q'iin°ES-Zi.^:rKo7SS^«^%'Si^',i^ of tl^t J-e^V The founder of the PottawatWie n;ii-

Kirchenprov. Botica m Znttch. fur u^ssenschaftl. Theol., Ill sion of the Immaculate Conception, Father Clumian

C19W). PiBBRE SuAU. Hoecken, S.J., while ascending the Miseouri Rivw