Andrew the Fool

Andrew, a Slav by birth, was a slave of Theognostus, who was serving as a bodyguard in Constantinople.

[1] Later, he decided to become a Fool for Christ, living out his goal with humility and patience.

[1] Andrew and his disciple Epiphanius testified that they saw the Holy Virgin surrounded by many angels and Saints, praying and extending her Omophorion (protection) over the faithful.

That vision and the avoidance of Constantinople's destruction that was attributed to it inspired the creation of one of the most famous Eastern Orthodox holidays: the feast of the Protection of the Theotokos.

The earliest manuscript of his Greek hagiography, the Life of Andrew the Fool, is a quire in Munich in a 10th-century uncial script.