Leonid Mari, saint

Bishop Leonid of Mari (in the world Lavrenty Evtikhievich Antoshchenko) was born on August 6, 1872, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, in the village of Malo-Nikolaevka, Bakhmutsk district, Yekaterinoslav province, into a family of peasants. After graduating from the city school, on May 30, 1896, he entered the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra, and on May 26, 1898 he was appointed a novice of this monastery.