Jeremiah Leonov

Holy Venerable Martyr Jeremiah Leonov, a monk (in the world Ioann Mikhailovich Leonov), was born on 1 January 1876 in the village of Gavrilopolskoe in the Zaraisk district of Courland province. He completed the Vilna technical school and the monastery theological school and on 12 February 1908 entered the Valaam monastery. On 2 June 1910 he was enrolled as a novice, and on 4 August 1912 was tonsured a monk with the name Jeremiah. He did his obedience in the locksmith's workshop, where for a time he was supervisor. In 1917 he was granted leave and was in central Russia. According to news soon received by the monks of the monastery, the monk Jeremiah was killed by the godless Bolsheviks in 1918, during the persecution unleashed against the Russian Church.

He is commemorated on 14 January, on 7 February, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 22 August, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Valaam (new style, the second and third being movable days).