The name Leonid has Greek roots and means "coming from a lion." It gives its owner strength of character, enthusiasm and optimism.
When Leonid's name day is celebrated
Leonid celebrates his name day several times a year, and the saints who bore this name are considered his spiritual patrons. When does Leonid accept congratulations? The day of the angel (name day) of this person falls on the following days: March 23, April 28 and 29, June 9 and 18, July 30, then August 21, September 12, 15 and 28, December 27.
The patron saints of the name are the martyrs Leonid of Corinth, Leonid of Egypt, Leonid of Ustnedumsky and others.
Leonid of Corinth (March 23, April 29)
Leonidas was one of the martyrs who died in Corinth in 258, during the reign of Decius. Beginning in 250, persecutions of Christians were carried out in the city. All believers who refused to renounce their beliefs were martyred.
Saint Leonid was one of the disciples of Kondrat, a deeply religious man who gathered hundreds of people around him in the desert near Corinth. When the Roman commander Jason arrived in the city for executionfollowers of Jesus Christ, the young man, along with other novices, was martyred. This happened on the first day of the Easter holiday of 258. First, the martyrs were thrown into the water. But they did not drown, but got up and walked on its surface with their feet. Then the tormentors boarded the ship, caught up with the people, tied ropes around their necks, and still drowned them.
Leonid's name day is celebrated on March 23 and April 29. On this day, the church remembers him and other martyrs of Corinth.
Leonid's birthday according to the church calendar June 18th. Leonidas of Egypt
Martyr Leonid comes from a noble Roman family. He was well built, handsome, and had true faith in the Lord from an early age. For this he later accepted the death of a martyr.
During the reign of Emperor Maximian (approximately from 305 to 311), the persecution and extermination of Christians continued. They were brutally tortured, forcing them to renounce their faith, and if this did not happen, people were killed. Among them was the martyr Leonid.
He and other believers, among whom were Markian, Nicander, were seized and began to severely beat with rods. Then they threw me into a dungeon, didn't give me any water or food, and continued to torture me. The martyrs did not renounce their faith in the Lord, and one day an angel appeared to them, who healed their wounds. After learning about this, many pagans converted to Christianity.
The martyr died in prison from hunger and thirst on June 18th. The place of his burial is unknown. On this day, the name day of Leonidas is celebrated. The Holy Church on June 18 remembers the martyr Leonidas of Egypt.
Leonid Ustnedumsky(July 30)
Leonid Ustnedumsky was born in 1551 on the Yaroslavl land in a family of peasants. He grew up believing in the Lord and a literate person, his parents taught him to read as a child. Leonid led the usual life of a peasant, engaged in agriculture, attended church. But one day, at the age of 50, the Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to the Morzhevskaya Nikolaev hermitage, take the icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria there and transfer it to Turin Mountain, which is located on the Luza River.
The elder considered himself unworthy of such a Divine revelation and did not go anywhere. But soon he was tonsured a monk at the Kozheezersky monastery in the Arkhangelsk region. The Mother of God appeared to Leonid in a dream three more times, until he finally fulfilled her instructions.
Soon, in 1608, a church was erected at the indicated place in honor of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple. Later, the Hodegetria icon was transferred to it. The hieromonk died on July 30 (according to the new style), 1654. On this day, the name day of Leonidas is celebrated. The Orthodox Church remembers Hieromonk Leonid during the divine service on July 30.
