Venerable
Venerable Heimerad (Orthodox veneration unconfirmed)
ок. 970 — †1019
Heimerad — an 11th-century German wandering hermit-priest active in Hesse and Westphalia, whose eccentric, fool-for-Christ-like behavior during his lifetime led to a cultus at the site of the future Hasungen Abbey; his veneration in the Orthodox Church is not confirmed by any source.
Heimerad was born around 970 into a family of unfree serfs in Germany. He became a priest and led the life of a wandering pilgrim-preacher through Hesse and Westphalia, subjected to mockery and persecution for his eccentricity — contemporaries treated him as a holy fool. He was acquainted with Empress Kunigunde, Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn, and Archbishop Aribo of Mainz, from whom he also suffered incomprehension and rejection. In his final years he settled as a hermit on the Hasunger Berg near Kassel, where he died on June 28, 1019. Hasungen Abbey was founded in 1074 on the site of his ascetic labors and grave, becoming a major pilgrimage center in medieval Germany.
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: a targeted check of azbyka.ru and pravenc.ru found NO article on Heimerad; a direct check of azbyka.ru's June 28 calendar pages across several years confirmed that other saints are commemorated on that day (including Bl. Jerome of Stridon — showing the source does include pre-Schism Western saints when genuinely venerated, making Heimerad's absence meaningful rather than incidental). The Russian-language source zovut.com explicitly places him under "Catholic saints." The English Wikipedia's claim of Eastern Orthodox veneration rests on a single citation to a private blog (not an official source) and cannot be treated as confirmation.