Our Venerable Father Pancratius, Hieromonk and Recluse of the Kiev Caves
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Life
Venerable Pancratius was a hieromonk and recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery, the great monastic foundation on the Dnipro at Kyiv that grew from the cave settled by the monk Anthony in the mid-eleventh century. As a priest-monk, Pancratius served the divine offices of the community and, according to the synaxarion, performed them with much grace.
He is remembered chiefly for the gift of healing. The tradition relates that he received the gift of working miracles and shared it with those who came to him, healing the sick through fasting, prayer, and anointing with holy oil. His relics rest among those of the monastery's many ascetics in the Far Caves, the older of the Lavra's two cave systems, which is associated with Saint Theodosius and served from its beginnings as a burial place for the monks and recluses of the community.
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Relics & Shrines
Pancratius is numbered among the saints whose relics repose in the Far Caves of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. The Far Caves originated in the cave that Anthony first settled in 1051 near the Berestov mount; corridors and a church were added over time, and the system became one of the two networks of narrow underground passages — roughly one to one and a half metres wide and two to two and a half metres high — lined with living quarters, underground chapels, and the burials of the monastery's ascetics. The recluses and monks interred in the Far Caves are commemorated collectively in the Synaxis of those whose relics repose in the Far Caves of Saint Theodosius.
His companions & kin
Founder of the Kiev Caves Monastery, who first settled the cave that became the Far Caves.
