They were executed by the order of the Sasanian king Yazdegerd II in 455, five years after the insurrection led by Vardan Mamikonian.
Leontius opposed attempts by the Magi and Sassanid Dynasty, to forcibly convert the Armenian people to Zoroastrianism,[3] As an advisor to Vardan Mamikonian, he was present at the Battle of Avarayr in 451.
[5] Like his teachers, he was subjected to prolonged torture, but unlike them, was eventually set free.
St. Ghevond the Priest and His Companions are commemorated as saints in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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