Venerable Sylvester of the Kiev Near Caves

Blessed Silvester of Pechersk lived in the 12th century and was the abbot of the Mikhailovsky Vydubitsky Monastery in Kyiv. He continued the work of the chronicler Blessed Nestor and wrote nine lives of the holy Pechersk saints. In the service to the Pechersk fathers resting in the Near Caves, Blessed Silvester is called blessed and possessing the "miraculous gift of driving away demonic suggestions" (song 9 of the canon). Blessed Silvester is buried in the Near Caves, and his memory is celebrated also on September 28 and on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent.