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Saint Michael, the first Metropolitan of Kiev 10/13/2013
On request of the Grand Prince Vladimir, the Patriarch of Constantinople sent him in Russia to baptize the pagan people and establish and strengthen the Church of God. Saint Michael baptized the people of Kiev, Novgorod, Rostov and many other cities and villages; he established the life of the Church, consecrated bishops and presbyters, he founded the Michael's Monastery in Kiev and sent missionaries among Bulgarians and Tatars who converted many to the faith of Christ. These and many other important deeds performed this Saint in only four years. He peacefully fell asleep in the Lord in 992. His relics lie in the Monastery of the Kiev Caves.
