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Venerable Fathers of the Nearer Caves of St. Anthony
St. Anthony, the First-Founder; St. Prokhor the Wonderworker; St. John the Fast; St. Juliania the Maiden, Princess of Ol’shansk; Saint-Martyrs Basil and Theodore; St. Polykarp, Archimandrite; St. Varlaam, Ihumen; St Damian the Presbyter and Healer; St. Nikodim the Prosphora-maker; St. Lavrentii the Hermit, Bishop of Turiv; St. Athanasius the Hermit; St. Erasm the Black-Robed; St. Luke the Steward; St Agapit, the Gratuitous Physician; St Theophilus the Exact-sighted; St John the God-pleasing; St. Nektary the Obedient; St Gregory the Iconographer; Holy Hieromartyr Kuksha, Enlightener of the Vyati; St Alexei the Hermit; St Sava the God-pleasing; St Serhiy the Obedient; St. Mercurius, Bishop of Smolensk; St. Pimen the Much-ill; St. Nestor the Chronicler; Venerable Martyr Eustrathius; St. Elladii the Hermit; St Jeremiah the Perspicacious (could see the future); Venerable Martyr Moses the Hungarian; St. John the Much-suffering; St. Mark the Grave-digger; St Mykola Svyatosha, Prince of Chernihiv; St. Gregory the Wonderworker; St Onysim the Hermit; St. Matthew the Perspicacious; St Isaiah the Wonderworker; St. Avramy the Lover of work; St. Nyphont, Bishop of Novhorod; St. Sylvester the Wonderworker; St. Pimen the Faster; St. Onuphrius the Silent; St. Anatolius the Hermit; St. Alypius the Iconographer; St Sisoi the Hermit; St. Theophil the Hermit; St Aretha the Hermit; St. Spiridon the Prosphora-maker; St. Onysiphor the Confessor; St John the Ihumen; St John and his son St Zechariah; St. Simon, Bishop of Suzdal; St. Nikon, Ihumen of the Caves; St. Theophan the Faster; St. Makarius; Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon; Twelve Saints-Greek Master Architects of the Kyivan Caves Great Church in honour of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God; St Avrami the Hermit; St. Isaac the Hermit; St. John the Infant (one of the children martyred at Bethlehem by King Herod at the time of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ); St. Elias of Murom; St Nikon the Lean; St. Ephrem, Bishop of Pereyaslavl; St. Titus the Priest-Monk; In addition to these are thirty unknown Saints of God whose preserved and myrr-earing Heads are with the Relics of the Fathers of the Nearer Caves. In the Service to the Fathers of the Nearer Caves are also mentioned: St Ephrem the Priest and St. Eustathius the goldsmith. Also, Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal; St. Jerome, Hermit and Wonderworker; St. Meladius, Elder and Wonderworker; St. Perhius, Elder; St. Paul the Obedient; St Meletius the Priest; St. Serapion, St. Philaret: St. Peter. On May 24, A.D. 1853, these Saints of the Kyivan Caves Lavra were newly-revealed: St. Theophil; St. Theodosius; St. John the Cave-Dweller. Other newly revealed Saints in the Near Caves of the Lavra include: St Azarius the Faster, St Bassian, St. David, St Eliseus, St Innocent, St Hesychius, St Joachim, St Nicephorus, St Niphont, a second St Sergius, a second St Silouan, a second St Sylvester, St Sisoes the Canonarch, St Stephen the Faster and St Timothy. |