Silvanus the Schemamonk

Venerable Silvanus the Schemamonk of the Kiev Far Caves labored in asceticism in the Far Caves in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. One time, by the power of his prayer, he held fast to the spot robbers who had come into the monastery garden, and for three days they could not move. When they repented, the monk freed them. His memory is celebrated on 10 June (new style; 23 June on the old calendar), on 28 August and on the second Sunday of Great Lent.