A presentation of the Patericon (Lives of Saints) was held at
the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Monastery of the Caves on December 8. The book
is one of the finest gems of medieval European culture. It contains works
dating from the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, including Nestor the
Chronicler, Simon and Polikarp, Kasian, Sylvester Kosiv, etc. Strange as
it may seem, the Patericon has been published in many languages,
even Japanese, but never in modern Ukrainian. The new publication uses
the text of the best-known and most complete editions made by the monk
Kasian in 1642. The project was carried out jointly by the National Kyiv-Pechersk
Historical-Cultural Preserve and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan
Volodymyr (Slobodan) of Kyiv and All Ukraine greeted those present calling
it an outstanding event in Ukraine's religious life and called on one and
all to study Ukrainian history of which the Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon (as
the title reads in full) is the best literary monument.
Patericon is Publishes
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