Venerable Nestor the Chronicler

Life

At the age of seventeen he entered the Monastery of the Kiev Caves, still during the abbacy of Saint Theodosius. He wrote the first history of the Russian people, into which he wove the history of Russian monasticism. He was distinguished by an extraordinary humility and meekness. In his famous literary work he often calls himself "unworthy, coarse, ignorant, filled with every sin." But God, who knows the hearts of men, glorified this wondrous pleaser of His. When Nestor reposed on October 27, 1114, his relics worked a multitude of miracles.