Bishop
Saint Lawrence, the hermit of the Caves, struggled in strict seclusion, striving for prayer and salvation. He left the holy Caves Monastery to avoid the temptations of the devil and went to the monastery of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr. Leading a strict life, he received the gift of healing ailments and casting out demons.
Once, a man possessed by a demon, who exhibited incredible strength, was brought to him. Lawrence sent him to the Caves Monastery, where the possessed confessed that he feared the saints residing there. He listed the names of thirty black-robed saints who could cast him out. The unclean spirit left him, and the healed man, not knowing any of the saints, glorified the Most Pure Mother of God and the holy servants.
After his blessed repose, the body of Lawrence was transferred to the Kiev Caves Monastery and honorably laid in the caves, where his relics remain incorrupt. He was elevated to the Turiv See and glorified for his holy life and miracles.
