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|birth_date=1377
|death_date=11 December 1452
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|death_place=Taxiarchon Monastery, Achaea
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Saint Leontius of Monemvasia or Saint Leontius of Achaia ({{lang-el|Άγιος Λεόντιος o Μονεμβασιώτης ή Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ}})[1][2][3], was an Eastern Orthodox Saint who was born in Monemvasia and lived in asceticism in the region of north Peloponnese in the 15th century.

Details about his life are known to us mainly from his first biographer who according to some scholars is the Byzantine philosopher and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Gennadius Scholarius[4]. The biography entitled in Greek "Ἐγκώμιον τοῦ ὁσίου Λεοντίου τοῦ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ, οὗ ἡ μνήμη τελεῖται τῇ ια´ τοῦ Δεκεμβρίου μηνός" is found in the manuscript Gr. II, 186 (=1180) of the Biblioteca Marciana[5].

Saint Leontios was born in Monemvasia in 1377, from an aristocratic family. His mother Theodora was a daughter of the emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his father Andrew was the governor of the Peloponnese. He was sent to Constantinople for advanced studies in Philosophy and Science. After he returned to Monemvasia and later he entered the monastic life. He visited Mount Athos and stayed for some time living an ascetic life. It was revealed to him that he should go to north Peloponnese to a specific area close to the modern city of Aigio, in Achaea region. After his arrival to this area under the Klokos Mountain he built a small church dedicated to the holy Archangels and he lived in a very inaccessible place continuing his ascetic life.

With the support of his uncles Thomas Palaiologos and Demetrios Paleologos - who were impressed by the saintliness of their nephews life - he established the monastery of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel (known as the Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon). The Palaeologos family donated relics of Saints to the monastery the most important of them being small portions of relics of the Holy Passion of the Lord (portion of the Holy Cross, the Crown of Thorns, the Sponge, the Purple Robe of the Lord).

Today the Honorable Body of Saint Leontios is kept in a special shrine in the church of the Holy Archangels, inside the monastery. A church which bears his name is built in the town of Aigio.

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References

1. ^History of Taxiarchon Monastery and Saint Leontios, Holy Metropolis of Kalavryta and Aigialeia official website
2. ^[https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2012/12/saint-leontios-of-monemvasia.html Saint Leontios of Monemvasia Life of Saint Leontios, Mystagogy Resource Center website]
3. ^Detailed information about Saint Leontios and the monastery of Taxiarchon (in Greek)
4. ^  Νέον Λειμωνάριον περιέχον μαρτύρια παλαιά και νέα και βίους οσίων / Συλλεχθέντα παρά του αοιδίμου Μητροπολίτου Αγίου Κορίνθου Κυρίου Μακαρίου Νοταρά (Synaxarion-martyrologion with lifes of Saints and Martyrs collected by Macarius of Corinth and published in Venice, Italy in 1817 (in Greek). Web access of the digitized document in the University of Crete digital library
5. ^[https://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/cataloghi-sede-di-manoscritti/lista-delle-segnature-di-tutti-i-codici-8 List of Greek manuscripts in the collection Gr. II (II: Patres et scriptores ecclesiastici (gr.))of the Biblioteca Marciana]

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