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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Leontius of Stromyn

Abbot of Stromyn Monastery

First abbot of Stromyn Monastery, founded by Saint Sergius of Radonezh after the victory over the Tatars.

Feast
May 19old style June 1
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Leontius of Stromyn was the first abbot of the Dormition Monastery of Stromyn, which lies fifty versts from Moscow, on the road to Yuryev. The monastery was founded by Saint Sergius of Radonezh, at the request of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy, in honour of the victory over the Tatars.

Sergius made his disciple Leontius abbot. Venerable Leontius passed to the Lord at the end of the fourteenth century.

The Russian source commemorates him on 19 May (1 June by the Gregorian calendar), while our Menaion data shows 6 July, so the days do not agree.

Commemorated the same day May 19