Monk
Saint Ieremia (in the world Ivan Mikhailovich Leonov) was born on January 1, 1876, in the village of Gavrilopol in the Zaaraysk district of the Courland province. He graduated from the Vilnius Technical School and the monastery theological school, after which he entered the Valaam Monastery on February 12, 1908. On June 2, 1910, he was accepted as a novice, and on August 4, 1912, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Ieremia. He served in the locksmith workshop, where he was the supervisor for some time. In 1917, he was granted leave and was in Central Russia. According to information received shortly from the inhabitants of the monastery, monk Ieremia was killed by godless Bolsheviks in 1918 during the beginning of the persecutions against the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia.
