Fool-for-Christ · 16th century
Blessed Nicholas of Pskov Fool-for-Christ
Also known as Nicholas Salos · Nikolai of Pskov
A fool-for-Christ of Pskov who labored in this hard ascetic feat for over thirty years, receiving gifts of wonderworking and prophecy. He is famed for boldly rebuking Tsar Ivan the Terrible and so sparing the city of Pskov from the slaughter visited upon Novgorod. He reposed in 1576.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints