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Venerable Fathers of the Far Caves of St. Theodosius
St. Theodosius, Founder: St. Moses the Miracle-worker; St. Lavrenti the Recluse; St. Ilarion the Schema-monk; St. Paphnutius the Recluse; St. Martyrius the Deacon; St. Theodore, Prince of Ostrih (Ostrozhky); St. Athanasius the Recluse; St. Dionysius the Recluse; St. Theophil, Bishop of Novhorod; St. Zenon the Faster; St. Gregory the Miracle Worker; St. Hypatius the Healer: Holy Hieromartyr Lucian; St. Joseph the Much-suffering; St. Paul the Obedient; St. Sisoi the Schema-monk; St. Nestor the Unlettered: St. Pambo the Recluse; St. Theodore the Silent One: St. Sophronius the Recluse; St. Pancratius the Hieromonk; St. Anatolius the Recluse; St. Ammon the Recluse; St. Mardarius the Recluse: St. Pior the Recluse; St. Martyrius the Recluse; St. Rufus the Recluse; St. Benjamin; St. Cassian the Recluse: St. Arsenius the Lover of Work; St. Euphemius the Schema-monk; St. Titus the Soldier; St. Achilles the Deacon; St. Paisius; St. Mercurius; St. Macarius the Deacon; St. Pimen the Faster; St. Leontius and St. Gerontius the Canonarchs; St Zachary the Faster; St. Siluan the Schema-Monk; St. Agaphon the Miracle-Worker; St. Ignatius the Archimandrite, St. Longinus the Door-Keeper; and the Relics of St. Theodora (Bohdanna) of the Carpathian Mountains, brought to the Kyiv Caves Lavra in the nineteenth century. Also, St. Pachomius the Roman, a Roumanian Bishop who was devoted to the Saints of the Kyiv Caves Lavra all his life, and asked to be buried at the Lavra. He has since been glorified a Saint by the Roumanian Orthodox Church. The Relics of the Holy Hieromartyr Saint Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv, the Protomartyr of the Bolshevik Terror, are now enshrined in the Far Caves, as are those of the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Saint Filaret Amfiteatriv, who reposed in 1857. The great Sobor of the Holy Dormition of the Kyivan Caves Lavra is where a number of other Tonsured Kyivan Caves Saints are enshrined. Among these are: Saint Paul Koniuskevych, who was tonsured at the Lavra and who returned there at the end of his life; Saint Peter Mohyla, Metropolitan of Kyiv. Among the newly revealed Saints of the Far Caves of the Lavra are: St. Anastasius (a second); St Barsonophius; St Gennadius: St Gerasim; St Daniel the Staretz; St Dmytry; St Peter; St Timothy the Ihumen; St Pimen the Ihumen; St Avramius the Ihumen; St Dositheus I the Ihumen; St Acindynus I the Ihumen; St Dositheus II the Ihumen; St Acindynus II the Ihumen; St Isidore the Recluse; St Eulogius the Staretz; and another St Anastasius. There are also 31 myrrh-bearing Heads of Unknown Saints buried with the Fathers of the Far Caves of St. Theodosius. Together, the Myrrh-bearing Heads number 61. |