Lucian of the Kiev Caves

Holy Hieromartyr Lucian of the Caves was a priest of the Kyiv Caves Lavra and died as a martyr in 1243, at the time of the Mongol-⁠Tatar invasion, in the thirteenth century. His commemoration is on 15 October (28 October by the new calendar) and on 28 August (10 September by the new), on the day of the holy hieromartyr Lucian the Presbyter, together with the other venerable ones who rest in the Far Caves of the lavra.

As of many of the ascetics of the Caves Lavra at the time of the Mongol-⁠Tatar invasion, very little is known of the holy hieromartyr Lucian. During the invasion some of the saints of the Caves also received a martyr's death. During the western campaign of the Mongols under Batu, Lucian was killed after the capture of Kyiv by the army of the Golden Horde, as is shown on an ancient board with the saint's icon.

The ascetic's relics are first marked on the map of the Far Caves, which is thought to date from 1744: venerable Lucian hieromartyr. On the map of 1769 to 1789, in the same place, there was wrongly marked Saint Tikhon martyr. On the maps of the nineteenth century Lucian hieromartyr is again mentioned. The relics of the hieromartyr of the Caves rest in the Far (Theodosius's) Caves of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.