Cassian of the Caves

Holy Venerable Cassian of the Caves was a novice and faster, a recluse of the Kyiv Caves Lavra, and lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He is commemorated on 28 March (new style, a movable day), in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves, and on 10 September, in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Far Caves.

Venerable Cassian was obedient, hard-⁠working and humble before all, and a great faster. By his holy obedience he forced the demons to confess how many monks there are in the Caves monastery who can cast out evil spirits and how much the demons fear the saints of the Caves. Enclosure in the cave was the crown of his labours.