Fool-for-Christ · Post-Byzantine
Righteous Procopius the Fool-for-Christ of Ustya
Also known as Procopius of Vologda
A fool-for-Christ of the Vologda land whose incorrupt relics at Ustya became a source of healing; little of his origin and life is recorded.
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Notes
OCA says no account of his origin is known. Not the Great Martyr Procopius (same day).
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints