David of the Kyiv Caves

Holy Venerable David of the Kyiv Caves is commemorated on 26 June, by the old calendar, among the fathers of the Kyiv Caves Lavra, without his life being known.

The menologion of Dimitry Sambikin points out that among the venerable fathers of the Caves whose relics are preserved incorrupt there is no David, and his name does not appear in the services of the venerable fathers of the Caves. Yet Archimandrite Sergius (Hagiology of the East) lists him among the uncanonized Russian saints as "Venerable David of Pechersk", and Archimandrite Leonid mentions him in "Holy Russia" among the saints of Kyiv, but without information about his life; nor is the time in which he lived known. Athanasius Kalnofoysky, in his Teratourgema, does not mention him either.