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	Holy Transfiguration Antiochian Orthodox Church—BasilFool
		Saint Basil was born in 1464 into a peasant family living in the village of Yelokhovoe near Moscow.
		Saint Basil was buried in Moscow in the church of the Protection of the Most Holly Theotokos that is usually referred to as the Cathedral of St. Basil, fool-for-Christ-sake.
		For Christ's sake didst thou vanquish thy flesh by fasting, vigil and darkness and sun heat and slush and rainy clouds, and thy countenance has become as bright as the Sun; and now peoples of Russia approach thee, tsars and princes and soldiers among them, and we sing thy repose in Christ.
	htaoc.com /display_page/icongallery/BasilFool (907 words)

	Basil Fool for Christ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Basil or Vasily (known also as Vasily Blazhenny, Basil Fool for Christ or Basil the Blessed; Russian: Василий Блаженный) is a Russian Orthodox saint born to serfs in 1469 in Yelokhov, near Moscow.
		Basil is considered a yurodivy or holy fool.
		Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, which was commissioned by Ivan and is named after the saint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basil_Fool_for_Christ (151 words)

	Saint Basil's Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basil's Cathedral) is a multi-tented church on the Red Square in Moscow traditionally perceived as symbolic of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.
		The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Khanate of Kazan.
		Saint Basil's Cathedral should never be confused with the Moscow Kremlin, which is situated right next to it on Red Square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Basil's_Cathedral (439 words)

	Wikinfo \| Basil of Caesarea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Basil, Gregory Nazianzus, and Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa are called the Cappadocian Fathers.
		Although Basil advocated objectively the consubstantiality of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, he belonged to those, who, faithful to Eastern tradition, would not allow the predicate homoousios to the former; for this he was reproached as early as 371 by the Orthodox zealots among the monks, and Athanasius defended him.
		The principal theological writings of Basil are his De Spiritu Sancto, a lucid and edifying appeal to Scripture and early Christian tradition, and his Refutation of the Apology of the Impious Eunomius, written in 363 or 364, three books against Eunomius of Cyzicus, the chief exponent of Anomoian Arianism.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Basil_of_Caesarea (1137 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral (Moscow) - OrthodoxWiki
		Basil's Cathedral) was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1534 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Kazan.
		In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of St. Basil the Fool-for-Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), the saint for whom the cathedral was named.
		Saint Basil's is located at one end of Red Square, just across from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.
	orthodoxwiki.org /St._Basil's_Cathedral_(Moscow) (223 words)

	Triphyllius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Basil the Blessed was born in 1469 in Yelokhov, a village near Moscow.
		At this Basil smiled; when asked by his employer what was meant by this smile, Basil replied that the man who had ordered boots to last several years, would die tomorrow.
		Basil covered the dead man with his fur, but seeing their deceit, said: "Be truly dead from this moment, for the evil that you have done, for it is written - the evil doers shall be consumed." And truly, the deceiver died.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/saints/e_0208c.htm (264 words)

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		Basil was one of the few who dared warn Ivan the Terrible that his violent deeds were dooming him to hell.
		Basil was so revered by Muscovites that, when he died, his thin body was buried, not in a pauper's grave on the city's edge, but next to the newly erected Cathedral of the Protection of the Mother of God.
		The holy fools shout out with their mad words and deeds that to seek God is not necessarily the same thing as to seek sanity.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jim_forest/fools.htm (1308 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The famous St. Basil's Cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built on the edge of Red Square between 1555 and 1561.
		Basil's was built on the site of the earlier Trinity Cathedral, which at one point gave its name to the neighboring square.
		In 1588 the ninth chapel was erected to house the tomb of the church's namesake, Basil the Blessed.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /sightseeing/red-square/st-basils-cathedral.html (1023 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Basil's Cathedral is one of the most prominent landmarks in Russia, and one of the most spectacular buildings in the world.
		Basil's Cathedral (as it is commonly called) is actually the Cathedral of the Protection of the Mother of God (called Theotokos or Bogoroditsa by Orthodox Christians).
		St Basil was venerated as a Saint immediately at his repose in the 16th century and was eventually buried beneath the cathedral which now commonly bears his name.
	home.comcast.net /~basil.miller/basilsprig/stbasils (204 words)

	Christianity Quotes
		Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him.
		He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.
		Of the two, I have more hopes of him that denies the divinity of Christ and lives otherwise soberly and righteously and godly in the world, than of the man who owns Christ to be the Son of God and lives like a child of the devil.
	www.worldofquotes.com /topic/Christianity/15 (4951 words)

	Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia
		The Intercession Cathedral (or The Intercession, Pokrovsky Cathedral, better known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed or St.
		Saint Basil's is located at one end of Red Square, just across from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.
		Saint Basil or Vasily (known also as Vasily Blazhenny, Basil Fool for Christ or Basil the Blessed) is a Russian Orthodox saint born to serfs in 1469 in Yelokhov, near Moscow.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Russia/russia-interest-moscow-stbasils.html (403 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral (Moscow) - OrthodoxWiki
		Basil's Cathedral) was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1534 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Kazan.
		In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of St. Basil the Fool-for-Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), the saint for whom the cathedral was named.
		However, this is probably a myth, as Postnik designed the northeast chapel of St. Basil's years later, in 1588.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /St._Basil's_Cathedral_(Moscow) (223 words)

	Moscow Travel Guide: St Basil Cathedral
		Basil Cathedral is located at the end of the Red Square opposite the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
		The "holy fool" Basil the Blessed was very popular at the time with Muscovites and with Ivan the Terrible himself.
		In 1918, St. Basil Cathedral was among the first Russian buildings to be taken into custody of the Soviet Government as the monument of Russian and world heritage.
	www.travelinrussia.com /moscow_sightseeing/st_basil_cathedral.html (329 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		The idea of the holy fool, which was new to me last year, is one of Christianity's oldest, especially in the East, where ascetics roamed from town to town barefoot, sometimes naked, converting heretics and bringing lost sheep back to the fold.
		Christ, in his passion, had a robe of purple mockingly thrown upon him and was made to play the fool.
		I was made a fool for Christ, I think, so that I and everyone present would see that the august ceremony was also human, just as God, in the person of Jesus Christ, became human.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/20/story_2098_2.html (694 words)

	Basil the Blessed - OrthodoxWiki
		Our father among the saints Basil the Blessed (1468 – August 2, 1557) was a Fool-for-Christ and Wonder-worker living in Moscow at the time of Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
		St. Basil gave the Tsar some meat during Great Lent, telling him it did not matter whether or not he refrained from eating meat (fasted), because of the murders he had committed.
		Basil's Cathedral (Moscow) was named for him, although it was originally dedicated to the Protection of the Theotokos.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Basil_the_Blessed (164 words)

	Russia St. Basil's History Architecture
		However, records from 1588, a quarter century after the cathedral's completion, (and four years after Ivan's death), indicate that Postnik and Barma built the chapel at the north-east corner of the cathedral, where the holy prophet, or fool in Christ, Basil (Vasily) was buried.
		The Holy fools, or fools in Christ, were itinerant ascetics who enjoyed great popularity among the ordinary people of Russia, many of them being revered as saints.
		Basil had opposed the cruelties of Ivan, and was well-known for his fearless denounciation of the Tsar.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/6422/Page2.html (791 words)

	[Russia 1: orthodoxy]
		But at the same time he is aware that such behaviour threatens to create for him the reputation of a saint among the people and to strengthen his self-love and increase his pride as being one of God's elect - which is one of the most dangerous rocks in one's struggle for sanctity.
		Thus, for example, some fools-for Christ considered themselves free from even the most elementary commitments to human society, from its manners and morals, in order to challenge it.
		From Novgorod he moved to Ustyg, pretending to be a fool and leading an unbelievably severe way of life: he slept naked on church-porches, through the night he would pray for the city and the people, receive food only from poor people, treat the rich with contempt.
	www.russia-hc.ru /eng/religion/zopiety/foolish.cfm (2789 words)

	Basil of Caesarea, Canonical Letters
		For the adulteress, it is said, "being polluted shall be polluted," and she shall not return to her husband: and "He that keepeth an adulteress is a fool and impious." He, however, who has committed fornication is not to be cut off from the society of his own wife.
		Let him bless neither in public nor in private, nor distribute the body of Christ to others, nor perform any other sacred function, but, content with his seat of honour, let him beseech the Lord with weeping, that his sin, committed in ignorance, may be forgiven.
		He who has denied Christ, and sinned against the mystery of salvation, ought to weep all his life long, and is bound to remain in penitence, being deemed worthy of the sacrament in the hour of death, through faith in the mercy of God.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~vandersp/Courses/texts/cappadoc/basilcep.html (7846 words)

	Jim Brooks Forgery In Christianity Chapter 5
		Evident we see it to be, from what Irenaeus has just said, that the sects of heretics named were making use, each of them of one of the just-published Four as well as of other "spurious gospels"; the Orthodox claimed the Four as their own, and finally established the claim.
		The "gospel" up to about this time, a century and a half after Jesus Christ, was entirely oral and "traditional"; the Gnostics and other heretics evidently were first to reduce some "gospels" to writing; the Orthodox quickly followed suit, in order to combat the heretics by "apostolic" writings.
		Heresy could not exist in the time of Jesus Christ, for he laid down nothing for belief, except "He that believeth on me shall be saved" against his immediate "second coming" and end of the world.
	members.tripod.com /jbrooks2/Forgery_In_Christianity_5.html (10364 words)

	TheWorkofFools
		Benedict, as a disciple of Von Balthasar, believes that these words, which appeal to the hearts of believing Catholics, are mere empty vessels into which "new wine" may be poured as the Church "matures" and "evolves" in her understanding of the Revelation that has been entrusted to her.
		The Church of Christ is the true and sole teacher of virtue and guardian of morals.
		Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution.
	www.christorchaos.com /TheWorkofFools.htm (6238 words)

	The Cathedral & the Fool
		Basil was referred to by the people of his day as the Holy Fool.
		Often seen wandering the streets of the Moscow dressed in rags and draped with chains, he gained a reputation as a prophet for foretelling various calamities that would befall the people of Russia, including a fire that devastated Moscow.
		Following this the cathedral came to be identified with the Fool for Christ, St. Basil the Blessed.
	members.tripod.com /goldfanning/cathedralfool.htm (284 words)

	Saint Basil, the fool-for-Christ-sake of Moscow
		aint Basil was born in 1464 into a peasant family living in the village of Yelokhovoe near Moscow.
		Pray Christ our God for us to be saved from enslavement by enemy and from all civil strife.
		Thou didst receive revelation from heaven/ and go forth from the world's turmoil./ Thou didst live a righteous life as a monk,/ and wast given grace to work miracles/ and to heal diseases,/ O wise, blessed and holy Basil.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/basil_moscow.htm (938 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral - Moscow, Russia - Sacred Destinations
		Basil's Cathedral) was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1534 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Khanate of Kazan.
		Some elements of the Kazan Qolsharif mosque were symbolically incorporated into the cathedral, as the mosque was the main symbol of Khanate of Kazan.
		In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was named.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/st-basils-cathedral-moscow.htm (282 words)

	St. Basil's Cathedral
		Basil's Cathedral or Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin.
		The holy fool Basil the Blessed died in 1552, the year of the capture of Kazan.
		He was well known for his fearless denunciation of Ivan the Terrible's cruelties, and when, after Ivan's death, his chapel was built on to the cathedral, the name of the chapel gradually came to be applied to the whole cathedral.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/hornton/890/Moscow/basil.html (366 words)

	COCM Jan 2002
		Basil was elected, and Consecrated as Archbishop of Caesarea the capital of Cappadocia.
		Basil replied that he was not frightened, that he only had a few rags and a few books; banishment would not send him beyond the lands of God; torture could not terrify a body that was already dead with self-denial; and death would hasten his journey home.
		Basil said, in his Epistles 266 (cclxvi) and 214 (ccxiv) that the Romans were probably suspicious of his Orthodoxy, and also unfamiliar with the exact meaning of some Greek terms used in describing the Holy Trinity.
	www.celticchristianity.org /COCQ/COCM200201.html (19010 words)

	ACADEMIA CELESTIS
		But the Christian has a Spirit from GOD in CHRIST JESUS, (for if any man have not the Spirit of CHRIST, he is not CHRIST's,) and this Spirit gives him a spiritual eye, which an heathen has not; and this eye alone can truly discern and see spiritual and heavenly truths.
		But the scholars taught in the school of CHRIST, account it their chief learning to learn; and by learning to receive CHRIST, with his blessings: whom the more they thus learn, the higher are they esteemed and placed by their Master, who is truth itself, in the school of blessedness.
		In one place we are told, "That CHRIST's love is pleasanter than wine;" and in another, "That the laws of GOD are pleasanter than honey." Here, by the pleasantness of wine, we do no, learn the true pleasure of CHRIST's love: for this is another kind of pleasure than the pleasantness of wine..
	wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/christian_library/vol9/CL9Part7.htm (13872 words)

	open book: Fools for Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Posted by: Tim at May 27, 2005 11:28:59 AM Put another way, these clerics are fools, but not for Christ.
		Sometimes, one is persecuted because one is a jerk, not because one is a saint.
		Similarly, sometimes one is a fool because one is a fool, not because one is a saint.
	amywelborn.typepad.com /openbook/2005/05/fools_for_chris.html (570 words)

	May 10: Orthodox saints
		In fright she implored the elder, whether repentance was possible for such a sinner as she.
		Depictions of Saint Vasilii of Mangazeia are known of at the Vladimir cathedral in Kiev, at Novgorod, and at Moscow.
		Afterwards, at the Turukhansk Trinity monastery his memory began to be celebrated on 10 May, in honour of remembrance of the transfer of his relics from Mangazeia to Turukhan.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/may10o.html (2323 words)

	basil's blog » Draft La Shawn Barber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		She says she doesn't have time to fool with them.
		Also, she is, as she describes herself, "a believer in and follower of Jesus Christ … (and a) former liberal and current renegade supporter of conservative ideals." That's appears to be obstacle to advancement.
		Basil said: That puts it all in perspective.
	www.basilsblog.net /?p=216 (410 words)

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