St. Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus

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• WORKS:
  • In Hypapanten (On the Meeting of Our Lord in the Temple). PG 93:1565-1582. Sermon.
  • In mediam Pentecosten. (On Mid-Pentecost ). PG 93:1581-1598. Sermon.
  • Contra Judæos et de imaginibus (Against the Jews, and On Images ). PG 93:1597-1612. Sermons. The one on images is important in presenting, well in advance of the iconoclast controversy, a powerful theological defence of ikons.
  • Vita S. Joannis Eleemosynarii (Life of St. John the Almsgiver ). PG 93:1613-1660. The version in Migne is the Latin translation by Anastasius the Librarian, but Greek versions also exist.
    • The Life of St. John the Almsgiver. Translated and compiled from several Greek sources by Elizabeth Dawes (1948) in Three Byzantine Saints. Crestwood: SVS, 1997. --- MSBP
    • The Life of St John the Almsgiver. Translated from the Latin version (with Anastasius' preface) by Rev. Benedict Baker. --- Vitae Patrum
  • Vita S. Symeonis Sali. (Life of St. Symeon the Fool-for-Christ ). PG 93:1669-1748.
    • Symeon the Holy Fool. Translated with extensive commentary by Derek Krueger. University of California, 1996.