Venerable
Leo of Mandra
- Feast
- July 11old style July 24
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Leo of Mandra was a struggler for Christ who departed this life in peace. The Greek synaxarion calls him “Leo of Mandra”, after the place where he lived his ascetic life, and says only that he passed to the Lord quietly after a life given to God.
The name Leo means “lion”, and his life left no fuller record. The Church honours him without further historical detail, on 11 July (new style), as a venerable monk who fought the good fight of the ascetic life and received its reward.
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