Martyr
Hieromartyr Kuksha and Venerable Pimen the Faster
August 27 Old CalendarSeptember 9 New Calendar
Life
Both were monks of the Kiev Caves Monastery. Kuksha successfully preached the Gospel to the Vyatichi and baptized them. One day pagans attacked and slew him together with his disciple. At that very hour Pimen the Faster was standing at a service in the Caves Monastery, and perceiving in spirit the death of his disciple and companion Kuksha, he cried out: "Our brother Kuksha has today been slain for the Gospel." And having said this, he himself also died, in the year 1113.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, August 27. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on August 27
The full reading for August 27 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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