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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Fool-⁠for-⁠Christ

Leontius of Ustyug

Fool for Christ

A fool for Christ of Ustyug, venerated in the Russian Church.

Feast
July 18old style July 31
Era
unknown
Order
Fools-for-Christ

Life

Holy Blessed Leontius of Ustyug was a fool for Christ. The Azbyka page has no life of him and gives no date or event from his life; it says only that he is commemorated on 11 July (the date moves), with the Synaxis of the Saints of Vologda, in the new style. In the page's library he is listed as "the Venerable Leontius, fool of Ustyug", with a reference to the work of Archbishop Dimitry (Sambikin).

Commemorated the same day July 18