Basil - Moscow holy fool. Born in December 1469 in the village of Yelokhovo (now - the city cherteMoskvy), on the porch, where his mother came to pray about the "successful resolution."
His parents, peasants, sent him to training shoemaking skills. Hardworking and God-fearing young man - tells the life, - Vasily was granted the gift of insight, which is discovered by accident. After sixteen years until his death he made the feat of foolishness, without shelter, and clothing, exposing themselves to great privations. The Life of the Blessed describes how he and word and example taught the people of the moral life. He walked all year round with no clothes on, slept under the open sky, constantly fasted, suffered deprivation.
He constantly denounced the lies and hypocrisy. Contemporaries noted that it was almost the only person afraid of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Tsar Ivan the Terrible revered and feared the Blessed, "Thou seer hearts and minds of men." When, shortly before his death, Basil fell into a grave illness, the king visited him with tsaritseyAnastasiey.
St. Basil died on August 2, 1552 (sometimes referred to, and 1551). Ivan the Terrible and the boyars carried his coffin, amitropolit Macarius sovershalpogrebenie.
The body was buried nakladbische Basil Trinity Church, on the Moat. S1588 years began to talk about the miracles that take place at the tomb of St. Basil's Cathedral; therefore Patriarch Iovopredelil celebrate the memory of the miracle worker on the day of his death, on 2 August.