Gregory the Recluse

Venerable Gregory the Recluse was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra, in the Far Caves of Saint Theodosius, in the fourteenth century. He lived enclosed in his cell. According to the Tale of the Lives of the Saints in the Cave of Saint Theodosius, his food all his life was raw grass. He gave this grass to those who came to him, and the sick were healed.

His relics are in the Far Caves. He is commemorated on 8 January, on 28 August in the Synaxis of the Fathers of the Far Caves, and on the second Sunday of Great Lent, in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves.