Moses the Hungarian (russian: Моисей Угрин, ; hu, Magyar Mózes; died 26 July 1043) was a Kievan Russian monk of Hungarian origin. He is venerated as a

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on 26 July by the

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. Moses was born around 990–995. Although the Hungarians were mostly pagan at the time (though they later became Christians), the Hungarian chieftain Gyula of

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was baptized in Constantinople. This probably made it possible for Moses to leave

to serve the

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. Between 1015 and 1018, already preparing to become a monk, he was an escort of Predslava, the daughter of

Vladimir I of Kiev Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych ( orv, Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, ''Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь'';, ''Uladzimir'', russian: Владимир, ''Vladimir'', uk, Володимир, ''Volodymyr''. Se ...

and sister of the future Prince

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. István Ivancsó
"Egy elfelejtett szent: Magyar Mózes" ("Moses the Hungarian: a Forgotten Saint")
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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.

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990s births 1043 deaths 11th-century Hungarian people 11th-century Rus' people 11th-century Christian saints Medieval Hungarian saints Monks of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Eastern Orthodox monks Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox Christians from Hungary Russian people of Hungarian descent Ukrainian people of Hungarian descent Hungarian Christian monks {{Eastern-Orthodoxy-bio-stub