Abstract
St. Leontius (Liesne) is one of the two patron saints of Melun. He is commemorated as a confessor in two ninth-century martyrologies but in which century did he live ? No Vita of him has been traced but a collection of his miracles was compiled in 1136 by Gautier, a monk of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Pere, which owned the patronage of the church of St. Leontius. The author strongly insists that the saint had been a priest and not a bishop as some citizens of Melun claimed. This collection of miracles, which was partly used in the 17th cent., disappeared in the 19th cent. However, a copy was made by the Maurists and has been found in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris and is published here for the first time.
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