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Blessed '''Andrew the Fool-for-Christ''' was a 10th century [[fool-for-Christ]], famed for his vision of the [[Protection of the Mother of God]]. He is commemorated by the Church on [[October 2]].

He was born a Scythian and came to live in Constantinople as the slave of Theognostus, a ''protospatharios'' ("first sword-bearer," an honorific title) to Emperor Leo VI the Great (886-912). He was also the spiritual child of Nicephorus, a priest at [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] during that time.

Blessed Andrew died in the year 936 at the age of 66.

An intriguing part of the ''Life'' of St. Andrew, written by a certain "Nicephorus in Constantinople" in the tenth century, is the section when Andrew is answering a question made by his disciple Epiphanius on "when and how this world will come to an an end."

* Atheniensis 1014, a 1071, fols. 93-104

[[Troparion]] ([[Tone]] 4) [http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/saints/andrew_foolish.htm]

:Thou didst choose foolishness for the sake of Christ

:By never avoiding the hardships of weather thou didst purify thyself as gold in the furnace.

* Epiphanius, who many scholars agree to be St. [[Polyeuctus]] ([[February 5]]), Patriarch of Constantinople from 956-970.

*[http://www.mgr.org/TheVeil.html The Miracle of the Virgin Mary at the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople on 911 AD]

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