Today the Church honors the memory of the Venerable Hieromartyr Kuksha and the Venerable Pimen the Fastertranslated

The Venerable Hieromartyr Kuksha and the Venerable Pimen the Faster died after 1114. Saint Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal (XII; commemorated May 10), in a letter to the Monk Polycarp, Archimandrite of Pechersk († 1182; commemorated July 24), wrote about the Monk Kuksha: “How can I worthily glorify the holy men who were in the holy Pechersk monastery, in which pagans were baptized and became monks, and Jews accepted the holy faith? But I do not I can keep silent about the blessed martyr...