Moses the Hungarian
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Moses the Hungarian (Russian: Моисей Угрин, Moisey Ugrin; Hungarian: Magyar Mózes; died July 26, 1043) was a Kievan Russian monk of Hungarian origin. He is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Moses was born around 990-995. He probably left Transylvania, part of the Hungarian Kingdom, to serve the princely family in Kiev. Between 1015 and 1018, already preparing to become a monk, he was in the escort of Predslava, the daughter of Vladimir I of Kiev and sister of the future Prince Yaroslav I the Wise.[1]
Following the Polish expedition of 1018, he was carried to Poland as a prisoner and could only return in 1025. Moses spent the rest of his life in the Kiev Cave Monastery.[1]
Although the Hungarians were mostly pagan when he was born and later they became Catholic, but the Gyula, the Hungarian chieftain of Transylvania was baptised in Constantinople; therefore, Moses could have follow the Orthodox Rite.
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- ^ a b (Hungarian) István Ivancsó, "Egy elfelejtett szent: Magyar Mózes" ("Moses the Hungarian: a Forgotten Saint"), in Aetas; retrieved November 5, 2007
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