Life and Wonderworking
No narrative biography of Agathon survives; the saint is known chiefly through the tradition preserved at the Kiev Caves and the testimony of his relics. He is described as a great ascetic of the Far Caves who lived in the 13th or 14th century.
Two charisms define his memory. He healed the sick by the laying on of his hands, and he possessed the gift of prophecy, through which he foretold the hour of his own death. These are the constants in every account of him, even where fuller biographical detail is wanting.