Saint Leonid of Ustnedumsk

Orthodox icon of Saint Leonid of Ustnedumsk on thick plywood 20mm, which does not sting and keeps its shape over time. Preparation with acrylic stucco and have been used acrylic colors. It has been covered with varnish to keep the colors undiluted in time and humidity. Hanging clip included on the back of the icon. 

St. Leonid of Ustnedumsk lived in the Poshekhonsk district of Vologda, and he was a farmer by occupation. At age fifty, he saw the Mother of God in a dream, Who directed him to go to the River Dvina to the Morzhevsk Nikolaev hermitage. He was to take from there the Hodēgḗtria Icon of the Mother of God, and build a church for it at the River Luz and Mount Turin. Saint Leonid decided not to follow the advice of this vision, thinking it simply a dream, and considering himself unworthy. He went to the Kozhe Lake monastery, accepting monastic tonsure there and spending about three years at work and ascetical efforts. From there he transferred to the Solovki monastery and labored there in the bakery. The miraculous vision was repeated, and Saint Leonid was advised not to oppose God’s will. The venerable one then set off to the Morzhevsk hermitage, and after a year he told Igumen Cornelius about the command of the Mother of God. Having received from the abbot both a blessing and the Hodēgḗtria icon, the monk reached the city of Lalsk and constructed a cell and set about building a monastery. He called his monastery the “Ustnedumsk” (“the mouth of the Nedumaya”) monastery. With the blessing of the Metropolitan Philaret of Rostov Leonid was ordained hieromonk in 1608. Saint Leonid died at age 100, on July 17, 1654, which is his feast day.