Venerable (Monastic) · 14th century
Zachariah the Ascetic of the Kiev Caves
Also known as Zacharias of the Kiev Caves · Zacharias the Faster
A monk of the Kiev Caves renowned for extreme fasting, taking only uncooked greens once a day. Commemorated among the saints of the Near Caves.
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Notes
Reckoned to the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints