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Saints of the Kyivan Baroque Period

Saints often have such a tremendous impact on the lives of their disciples that they give rise to a whole Choir of Saints under their inspiration.  St. Tikhon Zadonsky has such a holy group of yet not Glorified persons who are commemorated in the calendar and who belong, by right, to the Ukrainian Church.  Saint Arsenius of Tver left in his wake the following Saints in the Tver Region who were his disciples:  St Savvati, St Euphrosyne, St Barsonophius and St Sava, all of Tver.  They all worked under the omophorion of the Metropolitan of Kyiv and also deserve to be in the calendar of the Ukrainian Church. .  These are:  Theophane, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas, Metrophan, Matrona, and Agapitus St. Daniel of Pereyaslav-Zalesski is another Ukrainian saint of the fifteenth century.  At times, the Ukrainian Bishop-Saints “adopted” as their own a Saint from among the peoples which they were Evangelizing.  This was the case with St Basil of Mangazeya in Siberia, a martyr.  St Philotheus Leschynsky and St Paul Koniuskevych, missionaries to Siberia, venerated him highly, composed liturgical services in his honour and had icons painted of him, one of which is in the Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv.  St Basil belongs in the Ukrainian Calendar as a blessed Fruit of the Evangelizing Missions of the Kyivan Church in Siberia.

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