Agapitus of the Kiev Caves

Venerable Agapitus, the unmercenary physician of the Kiev Caves, who healed the sick freely by prayer and simple herbs.

Saint Agapitus was a monk of the Kiev Caves Lavra in the eleventh century, a disciple of Saint Anthony of Kiev. He tended the sick of the monastery and of the city with prayer and humble remedies, asking no payment, and so received the title of Unmercenary Physician.

Tradition relates that an Armenian physician who had mocked him was converted by witnessing his healings and later became a monk himself. His relics rest in the Near Caves of Kiev.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Agapitus of the Kiev Caves is commemorated on June 1. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 14 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Agapitos, Agapitus

Also commemorated on June 1

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  Justin the Philosopher

  Martyr, Ιουστίνος

  Holy Martyr Justin the Philosopher.

  Name days: Ioustinos, Justin

• Chariton, Charito and Companions, Martyrs with Justin

  Martyr, Χαρίτων και Χαριτώ

  Holy Martyrs Justus, Chariton, Charito the virgin, Evelpistus, Hierax, Paeon and Liberian, who suffered at Rome with Justin the Philosopher.

  Name days: Chariton, Hariton, Charito, Charitini

• Thespesios the Martyr

  Martyr, Θεσπέσιος

  Holy Martyr Thespesios of Cappadocia, who suffered for Christ under Alexander Severus.

  Name days: Thespesios, Thespesius

• Justin Popovich of Chelije

  Venerable, Ιουστίνος Πόποβιτς

  Venerable Justin Popovich, Serbian theologian and confessor of the twentieth century, spiritual father of the Chelije monastery.

• Dionysius of Glushitsa

  Venerable, Διονύσιος του Γλουσέτσκ

  Venerable Dionysius, Abbot of Glushitsa in Vologda, ascetic and iconographer of the Russian north.

• Pyrrhus the Virgin, Bishop

  Hierarch, Πύρρος

  Saint Pyrrhus the Virgin, a bishop remembered for his purity of life.