Gabriel experienced several strong influences: the rhetoric of the American Revolution; the uprising in Saint Domingue, the radical words of white artisans who championed the working class ...

On September 3/16 the Orthodox Church keeps the memories of two Holy Fools, or Fools-for-Christ, Blessed John “the Hairy,” fool-for-Christ, of Rostov (1580), and Priest Peter, fool-for-Christ, of ...