Presbyter
Saint Leontius was born on July 10, 1869, in the village of Lodyzhanka, Uman district, Kyiv province. In 1892, he graduated from the Kyiv Theological Academy and became a teacher at the parish school. On July 31, 1894, he was ordained a priest. He served in churches until 1931, was elevated to the rank of archpriest in 1922, and was awarded a palitsa in 1928. In 1931, he moved to the village of Zhigalovo, where he served as a psalmist with the right to perform divine services.
On April 4, 1932, he was appointed to the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Lytkarino. In 1935, he was awarded a pectoral cross. In 1937, he was transferred to the church in the village of Ilyinsky Pogost, and on October 31, he was appointed to the Assumption Church in the village of Gzhel.
On January 26, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in the city of Kolomna. During the investigation, he denied the charges of counter-revolutionary activity. On February 21, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Archpriest Leontius Grimal'sky was shot on February 26, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
