St. Leonides

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St. Leonides of Alexandria was a Christian martyr of the 3rd century CE. According to the Christian historian Eusebius, his son was the early Church father Origen.^[1] In the same passage Eusebius tells us that Leonides was martyred during the persecution of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus in the year 202 CE. Condemned to death by the Egyptian prefect Lactus, he was beheaded, and his property seized. The feast of St. Leonides is celebrated on April 22nd.