St. Anthony of the Kyiv Caves

983–1073 · Kyiv Caves Lavra · Feast July 10

Anthony was born in Liubech near Chernihiv and became a monk on Mount Athos. His abbot sent him back to Rus’, where around 1051 he dug a cave in the hills above the Dnieper and lived there in prayer. Disciples came, among them St. Theodosius, and they dug more caves until a whole monastery grew there, the Kyiv Caves Lavra. Anthony is honoured as the father of monasticism in Rus’.

Feast: July 10 (New Calendar)
Lived: 983–1073
Place: Kyiv Caves Lavra
Relics today: Kyiv Caves

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