Fool-for-Christ
John the Fool for Christ
A fool for Christ, commemorated in the Greek Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- April 16old style April 29
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Fools-for-Christ
Life
Saint John the Fool for Christ, the Blessed, is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 16 April (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece), on the day of the holy virgin martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia of Thessaloniki. The fools for Christ are those who chose to pass for madmen in order to hide their ascetic struggle.
The sources consulted give no other details about his life, or the place or time in which he lived.
Commemorated the same day April 16
Fructuosus of BragaSaint · Bishop of BragaApr 16
Agape, Irene and ChioneHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of ThessalonicaApr 16- Leonidas of CorinthMartyrApr 16
Theodora of Nizhny NovgorodVenerable · Abbess in Nizhny NovgorodApr 16- Michael of BourlaNew MartyrApr 16
- John of VerkhoturyeFool-for-ChristApr 16
- Amphilochios of PatmosVenerable · Hieromonk and elderApr 16
- Konstantin ZhdanovHieromartyr · PriestApr 16
- AgathonConfessorApr 16
- Apodemius of ZaragozaMartyrApr 16
- Caecilian of ZaragozaMartyrApr 16
- Calisa of CorinthMartyrApr 16