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Venerable Barlaam Abbot of the Kiev Near Caves

Also known as Barlaam of the Kiev Caves

A nobleman who desired monastic life and became one of the early abbots of the Kiev Caves, later governing other monasteries in Rus'.

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