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Venerable (Monastic) · 12th century
Venerable Onuphrius the Silent and Onesimos the Recluse of the Kiev Caves
Also known as Onuphrius · Onesimos
Two ascetics of the Kiev Caves, the one given to unbroken silence and the other to the life of the recluse, who struggled in stillness and prayer.
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Notes
Named pair; not Onuphrius the Great or the Apostle Onesimus.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints