Michael of Klopsk (russian: Михаил Клопский - ''Mikhail Klopsky''), died ca. 1458, was a 15th-century

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fool-for-Christ's-sake associated with the Klopsky Monastery of the Holy Trinity near

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on the river Veryazha. According to

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, Michael was the son or grandson of Dmitry Mikhailovich Volyn-Bobrok ("Little Beaver"), the hero of the Battle of Kulikovo, and Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Grand Prince Ivan II Ivanovich the Fair, sister of

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. A

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of the saint, was written in 1478-9, redacted in the 90's, and again in 1537. Although folklorish, it provides the earliest literary evidence for Michael's activities in the monastery. During the period of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars, a mysterious fool-for-Christ's-sake appeared in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity. Sometime after being accepted by the monastery, but still nameless to his fellow monks, he was recognized by prince Konstantin Dmitrievich (1389-1433), who visited the monastery with his wife in 1413, as "our Mikhail." Among the miracles attributed to the saint by the hagiography are the conversion of robbers, one of whom became the monk Dorofey, the discovery of an inexhaustible fountain, the prediction of weather, and various other acts of

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. Michael died prior to 1458 and was canonized by the

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a century later, in 1547. His memory is commemorated by the

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. His relics are venerated at the Klopsky Monastery.

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