Blessed Basil, Fool-For-Christ of Moscow

Life

His father was named Jacob and his mother Anna. At the age of sixteen he gave himself to the ascetic labor of holy foolishness, and endured this difficult struggle for seventy-two years. He lived in all eighty-eight years. He went barefoot, bareheaded, and in rags. He had no fixed dwelling. He corrected sinners, rebuked the powerful, prophesied truthfully, and possessed clairvoyance. Having endured sufficiently from hunger, cold, and human insults, Blessed Basil committed his holy soul to God. Tsar Ivan and the Metropolitan were present at his funeral. He was buried in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Moscow, which was later named after him.