Damian of Kashira

Holy Damian of Kashira is commemorated on 1 November, by the old calendar, as a bishop, without it being known where he shepherded. He was not officially canonized.

The "Book of the Saints" and the Hagiology of the East count him among the uncanonized saints and call him "wonderworker of Kyiv", probably because he died and was buried at Kyiv. Nothing is known of this saint, not even where he was bishop. Kashira (Koshira), in the Tula eparchy, had no see of its own, and in the first period, before the Mongol invasion, there could have been no bishop there, since the town hardly existed.