George of Shenkursk

Blessed George of Shenkursk, a fool for Christ, was a contemporary of Venerable Barlaam of the Vaga, of Shenkursk († 1462, commemorated on 19 June). According to hand-⁠written calendars he departed to the Lord on his name day, 23 April. Blessed George is depicted in rags, barefoot, with hands folded in prayer. In the praise composed in the sixteenth century for the righteous Procopius, the fool for Christ, the wonderworker of Ustyug († 1303, commemorated on 8 July), it is said: The river Vaga, on which stands the town of Shenkursk, blesses George the fool. No other reports of him have been preserved.

He is commemorated on 11 July, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Novgorod, a movable day.