He was an English saint who fought gloriously in the crusades to take the Holy Land away from the Mohammedans. He was imprisoned by them, but escaped miraculously and returned to his home in Yorkshire. Leonard is a noted English, a noted French, and a noted Italian name.
Leonard’s Church, Sherfield English, Hampshire, Great Britain. Photo by Trish Steel [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. The Church is dedicated to Saint Leonard of Reresby.
