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Saint of the Day (March 13) ✠ St. Leander of Seville ✠ Born: 534 AD,  Cartagena, Spain Died: 600 AD,  Seville, Spain Nationality: Spanish Feast: 13 March (Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church) and 27 February (Eastern Orthodox Church) Siblings: Saint Florentina, Isidore of Seville Saint Leander of Seville (Spanish: San Leandro de Sevilla) (Cartagena, c. 534–Seville, 13 March 600 or 601), was the Catholic 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 St. Isidore of Seville. Leander and Isidore and their siblings (all sainted) belonged to an elite family of Hispano-Roman stock of Carthago Nova. Their father Severianus is claimed to be according to their hagiographers a dux or governor of Cartagena, though this seems more of a fanciful interpretation since Isidore simply stat...