Leontii

Leontii was a Russian hieroschemamonk born in Little Russia, a struggler in the Russian cells of Athos, who died on 25 May 1876. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

A year after his birth his mother died, and his father gave him to the house of a rich, childless Moldavian. At twenty-⁠two he fled from him and hid in the Caldarusani monastery, twenty versts from Bucharest, where he stayed sixteen years, then went to Athos. There he lived as hieroschemamonk and spiritual elder, full of counsel and consolation for many. He reposed in peace on 25 May 1876, mourned by all his spiritual children and by all who benefited from his counsel and consolation.