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    Anthony of Kiev, also called Anthony of the Caves (Russian: Антоний Печерский, Ukrainian: Антоній Печерський; c. 983 – 1073), was a monk and the founder...
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    Kievan Rus' and, together with Anthony of Kiev, founded the Kiev Caves Lavra (Monastery of the Caves). A hagiography of Theodosius was written in the twelfth...
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  • as Antony of Lérins Antony the Younger (785–865), Byzantine monk Anthony of Kiev (983–1073), also known as Anthony of the Caves Anthony of Rome (died...
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  • hermit of Italy and Gaul St. Anthony of Kiev, founder of Russian monasticism St. Anthony of Padua, considered the greatest miracle worker of the thirteenth...
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    (death day), September 30 (Translation), and formerly (with Anthony of Kiev and Theodosius of Kiev) on September 2. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος...
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    1051, or in 1074. Anthony, a Christian monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernigov, returned...
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    (Anthōnī) Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg Anthony, King of Saxony Anthony of Kiev, monk and the founder of the monastic tradition in Kievan Rus' Anthony of Padua...
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    Barlaam of Kiev (died 1065) was the first abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, serving together with St. Anthony of Kiev. He is regarded as a saint of the Russian...
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    1076 – 14 April 1132), also known as Mstislav the Great, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 until his death in 1132. After his death, the state began to...
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    as well as a monk in Kiev Pechersk Lavra. He was born in Kiev and was taught and admitted to monastic vows by Saint Anthony of Kiev. Agapetus famously provided...
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    Anthony and Theodosius were sainted founders of the Russian and Ukrainian monasticism. They established the Kiev Pechersk Monastery in the mid-11th century...
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    Maximilian Kolbe (category Catholic saints and blesseds of the Nazi era)
    Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland...
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    2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020. "Venerable Teenager". Messenger of Saint Anthony. 30 July 2019. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved...
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    killing of Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlesky) of Kiev, Metropolitan Anthony was elected to the Kiev cathedra, and returned when the city was occupied...
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    Bakota, Ukraine (category History of Khmelnytskyi Oblast)
    remains of monks. Local legend has it that the Bakota Cave Monastery was founded by Saint Anthony of Kiev, who also founded the historic Kiev Pechersk...
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    Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward...
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    Golden Horde Anthony, John, and Eustathios, martyrs executed by pagan Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Anthony of Kiev, co-founder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra...
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    honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred...
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    died in detention on 15 October 1385. He was buried in the Caves of St. Anthony at Kiev, in the monastery in which he began his spiritual life. The Russian...
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    Saint Lucy (redirect from Lucy of Syracuse)
    In Ross, Charles; Mandelbaum, Allen; Oldcorn, Anthony (eds.). Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. University of California Press. pp. 85–94. See David H. Higgins'...
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    celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of the history of Russian statehood. Wikimedia...
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    Michael J. McGivney (category American people of Irish descent)
    American Catholic priest based in New Haven, Connecticut. He founded the Knights of Columbus at a local parish to serve as a mutual aid and insurance organization...
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    Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία; 'well-spoken [of]'), known as Euphemia the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin martyr, who died for her...
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    upon the death of the last prince of Kiev Simeon Olelkovich and transformation of the Duchy of Kiev (appanage duchy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) into...
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    famous Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, through the efforts of St. Anthony of Kiev, known as the father of Russian monasticism. The sacking of Kyiv itself in December...
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    Prince of Kiev from 1073 until his death in 1076. He was a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise, the grand prince of Kiev. He is the progenitor of the Sviatoslavichi...
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    Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 – 251 AD) is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily...
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    Therese of Lisieux OCD (French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious...
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    reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of Eastern Orthodoxy's most highly venerated saints in Russia. The date of his birth...
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    of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions (Italian: I Santi Antonio Primaldo e compagni martiri), were 813 inhabitants of Otranto...
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