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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Fool-⁠for-⁠Christ

Sergius of Pereyaslav

Fool for Christ of Pereyaslav, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
May 23old style June 5
Era
unknown
Order
Fools-for-Christ

Life

Blessed Sergius of Pereyaslavl was a fool for Christ and a schemamonk. The sources consulted preserve no life of him, so no further facts of the time and place of his struggles can be given.

He is commemorated on 5 June, in the new style, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl.

Commemorated the same day May 23