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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Dositheus of Pechersk

A venerable monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra, commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church.

Feast
August 28old style September 10
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Dositheus of Pechersk is honoured as an archimandrite of the Kiev Caves Monastery, dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God. Many writers of saints' lives counted him among the abbots of the monastery and placed the time of his life in the middle of the twelfth century or at the beginning of the thirteenth.

The sources gathered here say no more of his life. He is commemorated on the second Sunday of Great Lent, in the Synaxis of all the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves, on 28 March in the Russian calendar, the day being movable, and on 10 September, in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Far Caves.

Commemorated the same day August 28