Martyr
Leontius
Martyr of Alexandria
A martyr at Alexandria, killed around 300, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.
- Feast
- September 12old style September 25
- Reposed
- 3003rd century
- Place
- Alexandria
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Leontius was a Christian of Alexandria who died a martyr around the year 300, at the end of the third century or the beginning of the fourth.
The sources keep of him only the name, the place and the time of his martyrdom. The old martyrologies commemorate him on 12 September in the Western calendar. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day September 12
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Athanasius of VysotskVenerable · First abbot of Vysotsky MonasterySep 12
Gregory of KydoniesHieromartyr · Metropolitan of KydoniesSep 12
Ambrosios of MoschonisiaHieromartyr · Metropolitan of MoschonisiaSep 12- Dositheus of TbilisiHieromartyr · Archbishop of TbilisiSep 12
- Felix and CyprianHoly Hieromartyrs · Bishops of AfricaSep 12
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- Vassian of TiksnaVenerableSep 12
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