The Voice of Conscience and the Hand of Mercy: St. Basil the Blessed of Moscow
August 14, 2025
The repose of St. Basil the Blessed — August 2/15, 1557.
In sixteenth-century Moscow, the name of Basil the Blessed was spoken with awe. Barefoot, unclothed, often hungry — yet fearless — he lived as a yurodivy, a Fool for Christ. His very presence unsettled the comfortable, confronted the powerful, and reached with mercy to the forgotten. To meet Basil …
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