Venerable Thomas the Fool for Christ

Life

Whenever he was in the city of Antioch on monastic business, this Thomas feigned madness for the sake of Christ. A certain Anastasius refused to give him the alms he had sought for the monastery, and instead struck him across the face. Then Thomas prophesied: "From now on neither shall I receive anything from Anastasius, nor shall Anastasius be able to give me anything!" After one day Anastasius died, and Thomas also expired on the way back to the monastery. And so the prophecy of this holy man was fulfilled. Saint Thomas reposed at Daphne near Antioch, in the time of Patriarch Domnus (546-560).