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Hieromartyr · 11th century

Saint Leontius Bishop of Rostov

Also known as Leontius of Rostov

A bishop sent to the still-pagan land of Rostov, who, driven out and threatened, won the people at last by gentleness and the teaching of the children, and sealed his apostolic labor with a martyr's death; his relics were uncovered incorrupt in 1164.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints