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Venerable

Silouan of the Caves

Venerable monk of the Caves Monastery, venerated in the Russian Orthodox calendar.

Feast
June 10old style June 23
Era
14th century
Order
Venerables

Life

Holy Venerable Silouan of the Caves was a schemamonk of the Kiev Caves Lavra at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century.

He was a zealous guardian of purity of soul and body, wearied his flesh with fasting and vigil and purified his soul with prayer and thought of God. He received from the Lord rich spiritual gifts: a special boldness in prayer, unceasing joy in the Lord, foresight and working of miracles. His relics rest in the Caves of Theodosius (the Far Caves) of the Lavra.

The calendar commemorates him on 28 March (a movable date, new style), in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers of the Caves, and on 23 June, 23 July and 10 September, in the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Far Caves.

Commemorated the same day June 10