St Theodosius

Theodosius went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land (where Jesus lived) when he was young.  After seeing all the places that Jesus had been and thinking about Jesus’ life, he decided to spend his life praying so he could follow God more closely and be more like Jesus.  He went to live as a hermit to be alone with Jesus, but then people started to come to him to learn how to be more holy.  So Theodosius built a big monastery near Bethlehem, the place where Jesus was born. Soon it was filled with monks and they took care of the sick, poor and elderly people.  Theodosius lived to be 106 years old! They buried his body in a cave called the Cave of the Magi, because people think that the 3 Wise Men slept there when they went to visit the baby Jesus.  Theodosius had spent many years in this cave alone with Jesus when he needed time away from all the people that would come to learn from him.