Basil of Vologda

Holy Blessed Basil of Vologda, also called Basil of Kubena, was a monk of the Spaso-⁠Kamenny monastery, on an island of Lake Kubenskoe, near Vologda, in the fifteenth century. The Russian Church honours him as a fool for Christ and as a venerable father.

No details of his life have survived. At the shrine with his relics lay heavy iron chains, a cap of iron plates and an icon showing him standing. In 1774, when a fire consumed everything that could burn, the wooden shrine over the relics and his image on it remained unharmed.

He is commemorated on 2 August, the day of Saint Basil the Blessed of Moscow, whose name he bears, and on 10 September, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda.