Leonid

Holy Martyr Leonid is a martyr commemorated in the Byzantine synaxaria, who received the crown of martyrdom by fire. His name occurs in the same list as the martyrs Diomedes, Julian, Philip, Eutychian, Hesychius, Eutychius, Philadelphus, Melanippus, Parthagapia and Theodore, of whom the Byzantine verse synaxaria say that they died by various torments; Leonid was thrown into the fire.

The Roman Martyrology places the death of this group at Pamiers in Gaul, in present-⁠day France. The Greek synaxaria, however, give each of them a couplet of his own, which does not allow them to be counted with certainty as a single group of martyrs. The place and year of his martyrdom are not known. The Greek synaxarion commemorates him on 2 September, a day of the Menaion, and the Russian calendar on 15 September, which is the same day in the new civil style; he is not, however, included in the present Menaion of the Russian Church.