Leander of Seville
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Leander of Seville was a Hispano-Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Seville. He was instrumental in effecting the conversion of the Visigothic kings Hermenegild and Reccared to Catholicism
San Leandro by Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo
Illumination in a 12th-century manuscript of a letter from Pope Gregory I to Leander (Dijon municipal library)
Reccared I
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Reccared I was the king of the Visigoths, ruling in Hispania, Gallaecia and Septimania. His reign marked a climactic shift in history, with the king's renunciation of Arianism in favour of Chalcedonia
Leander of Seville
…Hispano-Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Seville. He was instrumental in effecting the conversion of the Visigothic kings Hermenegild and Reccared to Catholicism. His brother (and successor as bishop) was the encyclopedist Isidore of Seville. Leander, Isidore and their siblings belonged to an elite…
Tremissis of Reccared bearing his effigy
Reccared and bishops at the Third Council of Toledo, from the Codice Vigilano
Conversion of Reccared to Catholicism by Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1888)