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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Nicephorus of the Cave

A saint who struggled in a cave, commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
November 9old style November 22
Era
unknown
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Nicephorus of the Cave, called in the synaxarion the one in the Cave, is commemorated on 9 November (new style, the Greek calendar). The Greek source calls him a Russian venerable and says that no details of his life are known.

All that is preserved is his name and the fact that he struggled in a cave.

Commemorated the same day November 9