Back to the saints / Venerable (Monastic)s / St Venerable Pimen the Much-Ailing of the Kiev Near Caves
Venerable (Monastic) · 12th century

Venerable Pimen the Much-Ailing of the Kiev Near Caves

Also known as Pimen the Sick

A monk of the Kiev Caves who was sick from birth to death, and who bore his lifelong infirmity with such thanksgiving that he was healed only on the day he reposed; a helper of those who suffer in sickness.

Explore

Notes

Not Pimen the Faster of the Far Caves (same day).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints