Cyprian of Karachev

Blessed Cyprian of Karachev is held to have been a fool for Christ in the town of Karachev, in the Bryansk region, probably in the seventeenth century. He is numbered in the Synaxis of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land, commemorated on the second Sunday after Pentecost.

Nothing is known of his life. In the second third of the seventeenth century the veneration of many blessed ones did not have time to form, because the hierarchs of the Russian Church sharply condemned "false folly" (the decree of Patriarch Joasaph I of 1636 and the acts of the Great Moscow Council of 1666-1667). His name is mentioned in the handbook of Archimandrite Leonid Kavelin. From his epithet, it seems he struggled in Karachev. In the second half of the 1970s, in the composing of the Menaia, his name was entered in the Synaxis of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land.