Venerable Leontius the Clairvoyant

Life

A Greek by origin from the Peloponnese. He struggled ascetically in the Monastery of Dionysiou for sixty years and departed this life in 1605, being eighty-five years of age. Of this saint it is said that he entered the monastery only once and left the monastery only once in a full sixty years. Namely, he entered when he first came to the Monastery of Dionysiou, and he left when they carried him out dead for burial. He had a wondrous gift of clairvoyance and prophecy, and after his death myrrh flowed from his relics.