With due honor, with general weeping, his toiling body was placed in the coffin, and on the same day, with psalmody, accompanied by all the brethren, they took him from the Pokrov monastery to Sosnowiec. But the horse carrying the body of the saint, having gone a short distance, stopped and did not go further, in spite of any compulsions. Then St. Amphilochius gave orders to bring Dionysius' favorite horse, and although he was no better or stronger than the first, he easily carried the body to the wilderness, as if feeling that for the last time he was serving the elder who loved him. On the next day, after the performance of the Divine service, the body of the saint was buried, in accordance with the will of the monk, in a grave prepared by him for himself, four steps from the wall of the Church of the Baptist in Sosnowiec, over which a tomb was later built, decorated with gilded carvings.

In 1547 the Moscow Council, venerating the podvig of the Monk Dionysius and the miraculous healings which he manifested after his death, numbered him among the saints. The service to the monk was composed in 1548. The biography of Saint Dionysius was compiled by the Glushitsa monk Irinarch.

The Monk Dionysius, leaving the Stone Monastery without any means, established four monastic monasteries and two parish churches, and at his death he left the Glushitskaya Lavra very sufficient means for a comfortable existence.

A number of disciples and immediate successors of Fr. Dionysius was so faithful to his tradition and tried so hard to imitate him in everything, that even after his blessed death there was no change in Glushitsy in anything, as if the wilderness abba himself still continued to rule his monasteries.

Agapit of the Caves, an unmercenary physician, resting in the Far Caves

When Fr. Blessed Agapit came to him from Kiev to the cave by St. Anthony of the Caves, seeking spiritual healing from him through tonsure into the holy monastic order. Having taken monastic vows, Agapit became a zealous disciple of his venerable and God-bearing father Anthony. As that great one, hiding his holiness, healed the sick with his own food, pretending that he was giving them medicinal herbs, and the sick became healthy through his prayer, so this blessed Agapit, zealous for the holy elder, helped the sick. Agapit first asceticized in a cave near Fr. Anthony, where he studied the lofty life of the wondrous ascetic, then moved to the monastery cell and served the brethren. When one of the brethren fell ill, the blessed one left his cell and, coming to his sick brother, served him in everything, constantly praying to God for the salvation of the sick man. If the illness continued – it was pleasing to God, in order to strengthen the faith and prayer of His servant – Blessed Agapit remained with the sick man unceasingly, unceasingly praying for him, while the Lord gave health to the sick man through his prayer. Thus, following the ascetic deeds of the Monk Anthony, Agapit received from God the gift of the same grace. He began to heal all the sick with his prayer, giving a potion from his table. That is why they began to call him a doctor.

His fame spread throughout the city, and many, coming to him, received healing. At that time in the city of Kiev there was a certain Armenian doctor, a man very skilled in healing. Just by looking at the patient, he immediately recognized the day and hour of his death, and if the patient was already hopeless, then, knowing this, he did not undertake to treat him.

Once a sick boyar of Prince Vsevolod was brought to the Pechersk monastery. This patient was driven to despair by the Armenian doctor, who predicted his death in eight days. Blessed Agapit, having made a prayer over him and given him a potion for food, which he himself ate, healed him of his illness. From that time on, the fame of the blessed physician spread throughout the Russian land.

The Armenian, consumed with envy, began to revile the blessed one. He sent to the monastery the one he had condemned to death, ordering him to be given poison, so that he, having taken it, would die in front of Agapit. The blessed one, having given this dying man monastery food, made him healthy and delivered the condemned man from death. After that, the heterodox armed himself against Agapit even more strongly: he taught his co-religionists to kill the monk with poison. But the blessed one drank without harm, not suffering in the least. The news of the Lord to deliver the godly from misfortune (2 Pet. 2:9). He said: "If they drink mortal things, it does not harm them; they will lay them on sick hands and they will be healthy."

Prince Vladimir Monomakh, then reigning in Chernigov (the future Grand Prince of Kiev), became ill. He was treated by an Armenian and used all his efforts, all the means of art, and the illness not only did not soften, but from hour to hour became more dangerous. The prince, feeling that he was close to death, sent to the Pechersk hegumen John with a request to send Agapit the physician to him. "If I go to the prince," reasoned Blessed Agapit, "then I must go to everyone. Human glory is dangerous. I will not go beyond the gates of the monastery, so as not to transgress my vow. If they drive me out, I will go in the other direction and return again." He sent the prince boiled byli, which he had prepared for himself for food. The prince recovered. The healed Vladimir came to thank the Monk Agapit, but he, fearing the glory of man, hid himself. The prince gave the goods brought for Fr. Agapit gifts to the abbot. Then, vividly feeling how much he owed to Fr. Agapit, ordered the boyar to take the gold to him in his cell. "My son! – said the monk to the messenger. "I do not charge anyone for treatment – for nothing: it is Christ the Lord who heals, not me." The messenger asked to accept the prince's gifts for his consolation and to use them at his discretion. "So be it," said Agapit, "tell the prince not to keep the treasures. What are they for? Let him distribute them to the poor; if he does not listen to me, it will be bad for him. The Lord does not like ingratitude, Who delivered him from death." The elder took the gold out of his cell and placed it at the door, and he himself disappeared. The messenger also went out and, seeing the thrown gold, carried it to the hegumen John. The prince, not daring to disobey St. Agapit, began to mercilessly distribute from his property to the poor.

After many labors and feats pleasing to God, the unmercenary physician himself, the blessed elder Agapit, fell ill. An Armenian physician then came to him, as if to visit, and began to argue with him about the medical cunning, asking: "With what potion is this ailment cured?" Then the Armenian, considering the monk to be ignorant of healing, said to his own: "He understands nothing in this art." Then, taking St. Agapit by the hand, he said: "Verily I say to you, that on the third day you will die. But if my word changes, then I myself will change my life and will be a monk like you." The blessed one answered: "Is this what your art consists in? You speak of death, not of your help. If you are skillful, heal me; but if thou canst not, why dost thou reproach me, foretelling death in three days; for the Lord has announced to me that I will depart to Him only in three months." "You have already changed completely and are exhausted," the Armenian objected, "and such people cannot live more than 3 days." Meanwhile, they brought to Blessed Agapit, who was so sick himself, a certain sick man from the city of Kiev for healing. The blessed one, with God's wondrous help, immediately stood up, as if he had not been ill, and, taking his usual potion used for food, showed it to the Armenian, saying: "This is the potion of my healing, see and understand." The latter, having looked, said to the saint: "This is not one of our potions, but perhaps from Alexandria." Then the monk gave the sick man his potion and, having prayed, immediately healed him. Then, turning to the Armenian, he said: "Child, I beseech you, eat this potion with me." But he answered: "We, father, fast for four days this month, and therefore now we have a fast." Hearing this, the blessed one asked him: "Who are you and of what faith?" – "And have you not heard of me? I am Armenian." Then the blessed one said to him: "How dare you enter here and defile my cell and hold my sinful hand! Depart from me, you heterodox and wicked one!" Saint Agapitus, according to his prediction, reposed after this exactly three months later, on the first day of the month of June. His honorable relics were placed by the brethren in the cave of St. Antonia. Some time after the death of the Monk Agapit, the Armenian physician again came to the Pechersk monastery and said to the hegumen: "Now I will leave the Armenian heresy and truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, wishing Him to work in the holy monastic rank. For Blessed Agapit appeared to me, saying: "You promised to take the monastic form, and if you lie, you will destroy your soul," but now I believe that the one who appeared to me is truly holy. For when he wanted to live for three months, the Lord gave him this time, and if he wanted to live three years, then the Lord would listen to him. Therefore he himself wanted to leave us as a saint, desiring the kingdom of the saints. Therefore, I wish to fulfill the command of this holy man soon." Hearing this from the Armenian, the abbot tonsured him into the monastic rank, and the former Armenian ended his life in the exploits of Orthodoxy.

The death of the miraculous unmercenary physician Fr. Agapit followed no later than 1095, since the illness after which he died three months later occurred after the healing of Monomakh, the prince of Chernigov, who stayed in Chernigov until 1094, and John was the hegumen of the Caves from 1088.

June 2

John the New, Sochavsky, the Great Martyr