-
Desert Fathers and
other saints acted the part of Holy Fools, as have the
yurodivy (or iurodstvo) of
Eastern Orthodox asceticism.
Fools for
Christ often employ...
- Блаженный,
Vasily Blazhenny) is a
Russian Orthodox saint of the type
known as
yurodivy or "holy fool".
Vasily was born to
serfs in
December 1468 at the portico...
-
scene of the book,
Rogozhin labels him a
yurodivy (holy fool). In the
Eastern Orthodox tradition the
yurodivy was
usually a
greatly respected figure. According...
- However, the root has a
close Avestan cognate ərəšiš "an ecstatic" (see also
Yurodivy, Vates). Yet the Indo-European
dictionary of
Julius Pokorny connects the...
- also
known as John the
Merciful of Rostov, a 16th-century holy fool (
yurodivy) of the
Russian Orthodox Church Ming the Merciless, the main
villain in...
- and
Catholic saint Procopius of
Ustyug (1243?—1303), fool for
Christ (
yurodivy),
miracle worker and
Russian Orthodox Church saint Prokop the
Great (c...
- St. Basil's (where
Basil himself, the po****r
Basil Fool for
Christ –
Yurodivy V****ily
Blazhenny – is buried), in 1588, four
years after Ivan's death...
- in
Shostakovich and Stalin, that
Shostakovich adopted the role of the
yurodivy or holy fool in his
relations with the government.
Maxim Shostakovich has...
-
Hairy is an
epithet applied to: John the Hairy, a 16th-century holy fool (
yurodivy) of the
Russian Orthodox Church Wilfred the
Hairy (died 897),
Count of...
-
Volkov compares this
style to the
nakedness of the
Russian holy fool or
yurodivy. In 1940
Zoshchenko published a
series of
short stories for
children about...
