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Venerable (Monastic) · 17th century

Venerable Leonid of Ustnedumsk

Also known as Leonid of Ustnedumsk

A farmer who, bidden in a dream, took up the monastic life in old age and founded a monastery in the northern wilderness at Ustnedumsk, draining the marshes with his own hands.

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