Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Rev. James Leo, pastor to Duchess of Windsor


From Cincinnati- (I think the first line should read "1930's" not "1980's".)

While he was growing up in the 1980s in France, Jason Leo often would accompany his father, then dean of the American Cathedral in Paris, when he visited a private home to give communion to the woman who lived there.

“He’d say, ‘Stay here in the car,’ and then go inside,” recalled Rev. Jason Leo, who followed the career path of his father, Rev. James Leo. “When he’d come out, I’d ask, ‘Who was that?’ And he’d say, ‘A nice old lady.’ ”

The “nice old lady,” Jason Leo learned later, was the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee who in the 1930s produced worldwide headlines when England’s King Edward VIII abdicated to marry her.

That was not the only time that Rev. James Leo had brushes with history or the rich and famous during an eventful pastoral career that took him from Pennsylvania and New York to France and finally, Cincinnati.

More here-

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120103/NEWS0104/301030172/Rev-James-Leo-pastor-Duchess-Windsor?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7C

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