Our Father among the Saints Leonidas, Bishop of Athens.
Little is preserved for certain about Saint Leonidas, except that he was Bishop of Athens. Eustratiades says that no information about him survives, except that he reposed in peace, which he infers from the verses for him in the Synaxarion:
A sudden heavy darkness enshrouded Athens
When Leonidas her sun sank, set, and vanished.
April Menaion, page 70
His name also occurs as “Leonides” with an “e” instead of an “a” in some sources.
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