Leo

Venerable Leo the Archimandrite lived as a monk and became the head of a monastic community, then departed to the Lord in peace. The Greek synaxarion gives no other details about his life.

The verses of the synaxarion picture him passing from the flowing life to Christ, who sees in him a lion's cub of the tribe of Judah, playing on the name Leo (lion). He is commemorated on 30 December (new style).