Fool-for-Christ · 15th century
Blessed John of Ustiug the Fool-for-Christ
Also known as John of Ustyug
An ascetic of Ustiug who from childhood kept strict fast, eating nothing on Wednesdays and Fridays, and took up the hard path of folly for Christ, sleeping on hot coals and hiding his prayer beneath the appearance of madness.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints