Biography
Zeno the Faster of the Kiev Caves
About Zeno the Faster of the Kiev Caves
Zeno belonged to the monastic community of the Kiev Far Caves in the fourteenth century. The Orthodox Church in America's notice identifies him through two epithets, Faster and Lover of Labor. It points to the third ode of the community's liturgical canon, where his fasting is praised. The notice preserves a monastic remembrance rather than a personal chronology: no exact life dates, family history, or separate account of his death is supplied.
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