Leon Voskresenskii

Leon Voskresenskii was a Russian schemamonk, born in 1862 into a family of townspeople in the Makaryev district, Nizhny Novgorod province, who died on 9 March 1914, aged fifty-⁠two. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Leonid Andreevich in the world, he was well educated and worked in the district administration, becoming a personal honorary citizen of Makaryev. Providence was preparing him for another path, as an incident from his life in the world shows: he lived at Nizhny Novgorod when his mother came to visit and heard of an old maiden, Muza, who had something of the gift of foresight. He became a monk on Athos. He set himself as a lifelong task to make the world a true partaker of the divine perfections, for otherwise neither a person's life nor the existence of the world would have any meaning. Having fulfilled his task fully, the elder Leon passed to the Lord on 9 March 1914.