Anatoly Recluse

Anatoly the Recluse ( XII century ) - the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk monastery Holy Russian Church , venerated in the image of the saints , memory is committed (according to the Julian calendar ): July 3 and September 28 ( Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of the Kiev-Pechersk Near Caves ).

Anatoly Recluse
Death	12th century
Is revered	in the Russian Orthodox Church
In the face	reverend
Main shrine	relics in the nearby caves of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
Day of Remembrance	July 3 and September 28 ( Julian calendar )

Information about the life of St. Anatoly was not preserved. The “teraturgim” of the cathedral monk Athanasius (Kalofoysky) ( 1638 ) calls him an old man and a miracle worker. Local veneration of Anatoly the Recluse began at the end of the 17th century when the Pechersk archimandrite Varlaam (Yasinsky) (future metropolitan of Kiev) established the celebration of the Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of the Far Caves. In the service to the cathedral of saints compiled at that time, Anatoly the Recluse is mentioned in the second troparion of the ninth song along with the Monks Spyridon and Nicodemus . According to Filaret (Gumilevsky), Anatoly worked along with these saints in the XII century. The Description of Russian Saints, known from the lists of the end of the 17th century, includes Anatoly among the saints of the “city of Kiev”.

Church worship began after the permission of the Holy Synod in the second half of the 18th century to include the names of a number of Kiev saints in the church’s common church words . The memory of the Monk Anatoly on July 3 was established in honor of the namesake with St. Anatoly of Constantinople .