Fool for Christ
Blessed Cyprian of Suzdal (Uvot)
† 22 июля 1622
Blessed Cyprian of Uvot, of Suzdal — a peasant hermit who lived as a fool-for-Christ on an island at the confluence of the Uvod and Klyazma rivers near the village of Voskresenskoye, and who died on July 22, 1622; his relics were found incorrupt, a chapel was built over his grave in 1751 with funds from the Golitsyn princes, and the shrine was destroyed by Soviet authorities in 1938.
Blessed Cyprian was a peasant who chose the path of foolishness for Christ's sake and lived as a hermit on an island at the confluence of the Uvod and Klyazma rivers, near the village of Voskresenskoye (now the Lezhnevsky district of Ivanovo Oblast). He led a strict, solitary life of fasting and prayer, concealing his spiritual gifts behind the guise of foolishness.
He died on July 22, 1622. After his death, healings began to occur at his grave; his relics were found incorrupt. In 1751, a chapel was built over his burial site with funds from the Golitsyn princes. In February 1938, the chapel was destroyed and the relics confiscated and lost by Soviet authorities.
His feast is kept in the Synaxis of Vladimir Saints (June 23, established 1982) and the Synaxis of Ivanovo Saints (June 7, established 2000), and he is also separately commemorated on the day of his repose, July 22.
IMPORTANT CORRECTION: the original stub was fully generic template text with not a single concrete fact, erroneously calling Blessed Cyprian a "Bishop of Suzdal" (category "hierarch") — the real Cyprian was a peasant hermit, a fool-for-Christ, not a bishop; the era "1st-15th century" was a meaningless placeholder. The single attached image, upon direct inspection, turned out to be an icon of entirely different saints — Venerable Euthymius and Right-Believing Andrew the Fool-for-Christ — unrelated to Cyprian of Uvot; excluded as mistakenly attached.