Grimaldus
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Grimaldus, the Hero of Helsreach, is the Reclusiarch of the Black Templars who refuses to die. He is often accompanied by a posse of Servitors
He appears in the novel Helsreach, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, where Grimaldus not only survives getting an entire temple crumbled over him but kills an ork Warlord with a single strike of his power mace, saves an Imperator Titan princeps from getting assimilated by her engine's spirit by merely demanding her not to fall, steals an Ordinatus from the Mechanicus and has his Tech-marine hack it so it can kill what it was probably the biggest Mega Gargant of the whole Third Armageddon War, amongst other awesome feats.
While he is for a large portion of the novel whiny about the fact he has to fight for a doomed hivecity he eventually realizes that, more than defending a physical objective it is to keep the spirits of the imperial defenders up that he is there, which, after all, it's the job of a chaplain.
Prior to the Black Templars being mashed into the Vanilla Marines codex, Grimy had a unique special rule similar to reanimation protocols. Upon losing his last wound Grimaldus would make a morale check(ignoring the auto pass he would get from being fearless), if he passed he would fight on with one wound remaining. In the new Space Marines codex he was instead given It Will Not Die.
Helsreach novel can be found here:Black Library