From the Prologue of Ochrid
A wonderworker of Ustyug, who reposed in 1303. A Varangian by origin and a merchant by trade. Having come to Novgorod on commercial business, he marveled at the beauty of Orthodoxy and accepted the Orthodox faith. He desired to be a perfect Christian, and therefore he distributed all his possessions to the poor and began to exercise himself in all the other virtues. He pretended to be a fool so that people would not praise him, yet he saw into the hearts and destinies of men, as well as into natural events, which afterward indeed came to pass. By his tearful prayer before an icon of the Theotokos, he averted a terrible hailstorm from the city of Ustyug, and thus brought the sinful city to repentance. His body was found dead on the street, covered with snow. A church was built over his wonderworking relics.
