holidays
August 2,
Christian feast day: Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)
Basil Fool for Christ
Vasily the Blessed is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or "holy fool".
Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church, also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.