Lvov, Ukraine, March 19, 2021
Photo: pnu.edu.ua A great theological, cultural, and historical find was made at Lvov National University in Lvov, Ukraine recently.
While searching for another document in the university’s academic library, the Doctor of Historical Sciences Nikolai Kugutyak discovered a handwritten copy of the Kiev Caves Patericon from the 17th century.
The document, detailing the lives of the saints from the celebrated Kiev Caves Lavra, was written in 1619 by Hieromonk Ignaty of the monastery’s skete in Manyava in the Ivano-Frankivsk Province, reports Carpathian University
Historians have only begun to study the document, but they are already saying that it “testifies to a single cultural field from Kiev to Carpathia.” The manuscript was discovered during a search for a 12th-century manuscript of the Patericon that has been going on for 16 years already.
The Kiev Caves Patericon is the most important landmark of the Patericon genre in ancient Russian literature, the main part of which was written in the early 13th century. The book includes stories about the inhabitants and events from the history of the monastery, and works of other genres.
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