Venerable Pimen the Much-Suffering

Life

From childhood sickly, and from childhood desirous of monasticism. Brought to the Kiev Caves Lavra for healing, he remained there until his death. He prayed to God more for illness than for health. At night angels appeared to him and tonsured him a monk. On that occasion they told him that he would be ill until his death and that just before death he would recover. And so it was. For twenty years he lay in bed. He worked miracles during his life and was remarkably clairvoyant. Before death he rose from his bed completely healthy, and immediately prepared a grave for himself, and reposed in the Lord in the year 1110.