Leontius of Alexandria

Holy Martyr Leontius of Alexandria was one of the five martyrs Seleucus, Stratonicus, Cronides, Leontius and Serapion, who suffered for the Christian faith in the third century. Seleucus was from Galatia, Stratonicus from Nicomedia of Bithynia, and Cronides, Leontius and Serapion from Egypt. For confessing faith in Christ, after cruel torments, the holy martyrs were cruelly put to death.

The hands and feet of Cronides, Leontius and Serapion were bound and they were thrown into the sea. The waves carried their bodies to land, where Christians buried them. Saint Seleucus suffered in Galatia, where after many torments he was thrown with his wife to the beasts. Saint Stratonicus, after torments, by order of the Bithynian governor was tied to two bent tree trunks, and his body was torn in two (his memory is kept also on 9 September).

Saint Leontius is commemorated on 26 September, in the new style. Their passion is also found in the Lives of the Saints by Saint Dimitry of Rostov.