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Venerable (Monastic) · 11th century
Venerable Agapitus the Unmercenary Physician of the Kiev Caves
Also known as Agapitus of the Caves
A monk of the Kiev Caves and disciple of St Anthony who tended the sick without payment, healing them by prayer and the simple herbs he ate, and who himself healed a prince of Chernigov from afar.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints