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	Kiev Pechersk Lavra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Caves Lavra, is an ancient cave monastery in Kiev.
		According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Antony, a Greek Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Grand Principality of Chernigov, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'.
		He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the Dnieper river and a community of disciples soon grew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiev_Pecherski_Monastery (326 words)

	Orthodox Chruch Music from the Ukraine
		Dogmatic of the Apostikha - Chant of the Kiev monastery of the caves
		Polyelei - On the Alleluia Chant of the Kiev monastery of the caves
		St Jonah began to build the monastery, and with the blessing of Metropolitan Philaret Drozdov of Moscow, a petition for the establishment of a monastery was sent to the Emperor Alexander II.
	www.ikon-records.com /9008.php (1055 words)

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		In the 14th century, the Kiev region became the cradle for the birth of the modern Ukrainian nation.
		The population in Kiev was 2, 638, 700 in 1996 as per 1st January 1996.
		The Percherska Lavra the Monastery ot the Caves has two 11th century cathedrals on its grounds, in addition to its world famous catacombs, bell tower, and museum collections.Close to the center of town stands the The church of St.Andrew structure, which dates to 1037.
	www.mailorderbrides.com /_city_kiev_about.cfm?RequestTimeout=6000 (2018 words)

	Kiev sights
		In 1926 the Calvin Cave Historical-Cultural Preserve was established on the premises of the monastery.
		The Monastery of St. Michael was located to the Northeast of the Cathedral of St. Sophia, near the edge of a bluff overlooking the Lowertown.
		The refectory of the demolished monastery, though without its Baroque cupola, was preserved and in August of 1963 was designated as a monument of architecture of the Ukrainian S.S.R. In 1973 the Kiev City Council established "archaeological preservation zones".
	www.kievlodging.com /sights.html (2552 words)

	Imperialtravel.net - Plases: Kiev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kiev is the capital of Ukraine and known as "the mother of all cities of Russ".
		By the 9th century, Kiev was the capital of Kievan Russ, the first centralized feudal state of the Eastern Slavs.
		Among several outstanding architectural monuments of the Kievan Russ that are still standing St. Sophia's Cathedral, the Vidubetsky Monastery, the Gate Church of the Trinity at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Church of the Savior at Berestove, St. Cyril's Church and the Golden Gates.
	www.imperialtravel.net /kiev.shtml (391 words)

	Monastery of the Kiev Caves - OrthodoxWiki
		The Monastery of the Kiev Caves (in Ukrainian, Києво-Печерська Лавра (Kyivo Pecherska Lavra); in Russian, Киево-Печерская Лавра (Kievo Pecherskaya Lavra)) is an ancient underground cave monastery founded in 1051, located in Kiev, Ukraine.
		It is also known as the Kyivan Cave Monastery, the Kyivan Monastery of the Caves, or Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
		It is believed that the Venerable Anthony settled in one of the Varangian caves, sometime around the year of 1051.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Monastery_of_the_Kiev_Caves (233 words)

	Ukraine
		Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kiev Patriarchate, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church alleged government preference for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate in eastern regions of the country.
		The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate, ceremonially rededicated the Assumption Cathedral on the grounds of Kiev's Monastery of the Caves.
		Embassy officers attended the dedication of the Golden Rose Choral Synagogue in Dnipropetrovsk, the mikvah or ritual bath at the Brodsky Synagogue in Kiev, a plot of land for Kiev's Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral, and the dedication of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves' Assumption Cathedral by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5708 (4644 words)

	An Orthodox Christian Space
		The Hieromartyrs Theodore and Basil of the Caves pursued asceticism in the eleventh century in the Near Caves of Kiev.
		Saint Nestor the Chronicler, of the Kiev Caves, Near Caves was born at Kiev in 1050.
		In 1886, under Metropolitan Platon of Kiev, the Synaxis of the Fathers of the Near Caves was moved to September 28 because of the celebration of the Synaxis of the Saints of the Far Caves on August 28.
	subdeaconchristianjohn.spaces.live.com (17241 words)

	In Kiev Massage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kiev Bank Union - The Kiev Bank Union () is a banking association created in 1994 by twenty commercial banks operating in the city of Kiev, Ukraine, for the purpose of cooperation between Kiev's financial institutions, and to manage collective interaction with authorities.
		The Kiev Bank Union works with Committees of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); the National Bank of Ukraine (Ukraine's central bank); the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, and the tax administration of Ukraine to discuss improvement of banking legislation and other relevant matters.
		Kiev Pechersk Lavra - Kiev Pechersk Lavra (;), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is an ancient cave monastery in Kiev.
	www.yunist.com /inkievmassage.html (948 words)

	Anthony of the Kiev Caves - OrthodoxWiki
		In time, he came upon a cave that had been dug by the priest Hilarion (later to be Metropolitan of Kiev), near the village of Berestovo.
		After the great Prince Izyaslav of Kiev convinced the igumen Barlaam to move to the Dimitriev monastery, the brethren, with Anthony's blessing, chose the meek and humble Theodosius, as igumen.
		Thus, the renowned Monastery of the Kiev Caves came into being, the first spiritual center in the land of the Rus', raised up through the efforts of St. Anthony, without gold but on the prayers of saints and by their tears, vigil, and fasting.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Anthony_of_the_Kiev_Caves (513 words)

	The glorious and Beautiful Kiev
		Kiev was founded by legendary Eastern Slavic chief Kiy (the city still bears his name), his brothers, Schek and Khoriv and their sister, Lybid', at the end of the V century AD.
		Kiev was a strong hillside fortress overseeing and guarding the main East European trade route, River Dnieper, that linked Greeks and Varangians (Norse or vikings).
		Kiev was the largest town in XI century Europe, fifty times the size of London, ten times the size of Paris.
	www.mindspring.com /~goliath74/kiev.html (661 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		St Stephen, Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia, pursued asceticism at the Kiev Caves monastery under the guidance of St Theodosius (commemorated May 3).
		The monastery was founded in thanksgiving for solicitude of the Most Holy Theotokos for the Caves monastery.
		In 1091 AD, St Stephen was made Bishop of Vladimir in Volhynia, and he participated in the transfer of the relics of St Theodosius from the cave to the monastery (August 14).
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/stekiev.html (339 words)

	The Kiev Caves Lavra: Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For centuries, the Caves Monastery was a spiritual beacon which attracted thousands of pilgrims annually from all corners of Russia; many came on foot.
		They prayed before the relics of the dead who reposed in the caves, and received counsel from the living; they attended the long and majestic monastic services and refreshed their spirits in the atmosphere of peace and sanctity which reigned within the monastery's walls.
		Rather, the monastery was submitted to a gradual process of closure, vandalism, neglect and decay.
	www.roca.org /oa/78/78h.htm (1894 words)

	St. John of Tobolsk
		THE GREAT Caves Monastery of Kiev was, from the earliest years of Orthodox Christianity in Russia, a fount of sanctity for the whole of the Russian land.
		The Monastery was destroyed in the Tartar invasion of the 13th century; but it was later restored, and again in the 17th century it entered upon a period of spiritual blossoming chat produced a whole series of holy hierarchs.
		The Tsar sent a strong detachment and designated Svensky Monastery near Bryansk to be the place of refuge for the monks of the Lavra in case of attack, and Hieromonk John was appointed its abbot.
	saintjohnwonderworker.org /tobolsk.htm (2521 words)

	Golden Kiev - Kiev, Ukraine, Europe, Anne-Sophie Redisch, Europe, Kiev, Monastery of the Caves, St. Andrew’s Descent ...
		It was expensive, but as I only had 24 hours in Kiev, I didn’t want to waste time haggling or even fording my way through the throngs of eager transport pimps crowding the arrival hall.
		In one of the churches above the caves, people were queuing to receive blessings or advice from two grey-haired monks in fl robes and beards.
		Descending the narrow stairway to the caves, one candle was extinguished by a rush of air.
	www.bootsnall.com /articles/06-10/golden-kiev-kiev-ukraine-europe.html (2353 words)

	Ukrainian Service Center : Ukraine : History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ukrainian history began with the rumble of hooves - Scythians dominated the steppes north of the Black Sea from the 7th to the 4th centuries BC, initiating centuries of outside political and cultural domination.
		Traces of Scythian culture can be found in Kiev's Caves Monastery, where the tombs contain superb gold work depicting highly detailed animal and human forms.
		The Rus took Kiev in 882 AD, and by the late 10th century the city was the centre of a unified state known as Kievan Rus, which stretched from the Volga west to the Danube and south to the Baltic.
	kiev.netfirms.com /ukraine/history.shtml (729 words)

	Antony (of the Caves) 10 July 1073
		For nearly a thousand years the monastery that they founded in St. Petersburg (Kiev) was to be the home of monks who lived lives of prayer to God and charity to their fellow men.
		It was not, to be sure, the first monastery in Russia, but the others, which had been founded by Greek bishops or local princes and were modelled on the Byzantine system, had failed to take root.
		Other caves were dug out, a large one was used as a chapel for the growing community, and later, when prince Syaslav gave them land on the hill above their caves, they built a monastery and church--the first purely Russian monastery, of the Caves of Kiev (Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra).
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/july10.html (425 words)

	St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 pl2.cs.utk.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The monastery is located on the Western side of the Dnieper River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the St.
		Although most of the monastery grounds were secularized in the late eighteenth century, as many as 240 monks resided there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		The ancient cathedral was modeled on the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev Monastery of the Caves.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/St._Michael's_Golden-Domed_Monastery (2309 words)

	St. Nikola Sviatosha, prince of Chernigov and wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1143) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nikola Sviatosha, prince of Chernigov and wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1143)
		Being married and having children, he left his family, princedom and all earthly pleasures and in 1107 accepted monasticism in the Kiev Monastery of the Caves.
		_e died in 1143 and almost all of Kiev were in the monastery to pay their last respects to the blessed prince.
	www.holytrinityorthodox.com /calendar/los/October/14-SaintNichola.htm (286 words)

	The Russian-orthodox Church
		This monastery became the richest and most famous church congregation of Russia and has been the centre of the theological study for centuries.
		The upper classes of the Kiev society adopted the Greek Catholic church service practically unchanged of Byzantium and they were delighted with the spiritual and earthly beauty going together.
		Their church is in the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, Dr. Kuyperstraat 2 in The Hague.
	home.hetnet.nl /~gabby-pat/church.htm (3863 words)

	Orthodox Flock to Relic in Ukraine - 29 June 2000
		KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Tens of thousands of Orthodox Christians stood in line in Kiev for hours on Thursday to worship the head of St. Panteleimon, which was brought to Ukraine from a monastery on Greece's Mt. Athos.
		Monastery officials said up to 80,000 people, including President Leonid Kuchma, have already visited the site since the relic arrived last week.
		To cope with the crowds, the monastery cave where the saint's head is on display was kept open around the clock this week.
	www.orthodox.net /russia/2000-06-19-ukraine.html (362 words)

	Welcome To Axis Mundi: A Student Journal For The Academic Study Of Religion
		The end result was the foundation of Holy Trinity Monastery; a monastic community which was loosely organised as a skete, a small monastic village with individual huts located around a central church, though it eventually converted to a cenobitic community at the urging of the Patriarch of Constantinople.
		Large benefices were made to monasteries by princes and other landholders with the result that opulence had replaced austerity in certain monastic institutions.[75] Such was the case with Kirillo-Belozerskij.
		Josephite monasteries stressed formalism and ritualism over the inner life, and in the process broke any connection with the contemplative emphasis found in contemporary hesychasm.[87] Thus, the weight of carrying Byzantine mystical tradition fell to the shoulders of the Trans-Volga hermits after Nil's death in 1508.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /axismundi/2001/to_be_transformed_part2.php (7997 words)

	Ukrainian Monks Seize Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the Moscow Times, Ukrainian Monks Seize Monastery of the Caves.
		KIEV -- Ukraine's Orthodox monks are resorting to sit-ins to regain church property seized by the Soviet government and still occupied by secular organizations.
		For the past week, about a dozen monks have occupied the State Archaeological Institute's archives, housed in the gold-crested, onion-domed Monastery of the Caves, demanding the government return the building to the church.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/000713.html (260 words)

	St. Irene Chrysovalantou \| Simon the Zealot and Apostle
		Saint Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal was an author of the KIEV CAVES PATERIKON, and he became a monk at the Monastery of the Caves, sometime in the second half of the twelfth century.
		In the year 1206 he was appointed igumen of the Vladimir Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos, and in 1214, at the wish of Prince George Vsevolodovich (+ 1238), he was made the first bishop of Vladimir-on-the-Klyazma and Suzdal.
		Initially his body was buried at Vladimir, but later, in accordance with the saint's last wishes, his body was transferred to the Kiev Caves Lavra, where it rests in the Antoniev Caves.
	www.stirene.org /Archives/May/0510-StSimon.htm (336 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beginning in 1625, Mohyla entered the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev.
		By 1627 Mohyla was elected superior of the Monastery of the Cave and six years later he became the metropolitan of Kiev, which is an influential religious position (Britannica).
		While serving as metropolitan, Mohyla centered the focus of the theological college of the Kiev monastery on humanities and theological studies (Britannica).
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/j/a/jam691/index41.htm (225 words)

	Kiev - 4 Day Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You will understand why Kiev is called Slavonic Jerusalem after visiting the world-famous Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra, where you will admire architectural masterpieces and have a look at the Caves that used to house the monastery premises several centuries ago.
		It was constructed in 1017 1024 and served as a main gala entrance to Kiev.
		The name of the Gate in Kiev reminds of famous entrance to Constantinople: Kiev prince Yaroslav Mudry wanted to underline that his country was as powerful as the Byzantine Empire.
	www.kiev.info /tours/tour/52.htm (337 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He became a hermit attached to the Esphigmenon monastery on the Holy Mountain, at which the community followed the rule of Basil.
		He hoped to combine in the monastery, which came to be the Pechersky Lavra, the communal life as practiced at the Studion and the solitary life as taught by the Desert Fathers.
		Anthony's monastery, says The Primary Chronicle was founded, not through the donations of the wealthy, but through the prayer and ascetical efforts of the monks.
	www2.evansville.edu /ECOLEWEB/glossary/akievcaves.html (174 words)

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