Saint Josaphat

Saint Josaphat was kind and wise ... but he was born and named Faddei in Hradyzk, Poltava Oblast where the river Dnieper got so wide. He never knew his father and his mother was a whore so, from early on, he had to fend for himself and he grew up a mean beast and he was strong as an ox, could run like a deer and swim like a fish and if he'd had an illness (he hadn't) and needed a doctor (he didn't), it would have been surely a veterinarian and he carried very large and very sharp knifes and would rob and sometimes kill people in the forest on the way to or from market and put his gold and silver coins and jewellery under an old walnut tree in the neighbour's backyard. One evening he lay in wait and saw an old man with a bag on his back coming. Faddei jumped up and shouted "Your money or your life!" and he old man stopped and said "I am Brother Timofei from Hadiach monastery and carry money for a new church bell for St. Salvey, two villages over where people are poor and unhappy and the only time of hope and joy is at mass listening to the life of Saints and being told of their happiness in afterlife and the bell would call them to service so I will not give you the money, so I guess it is my life" and Faddei said "I guess you guess right" and put his largest and sharpest knife into the monk killing him on the spot and in the bag Faddei found many gold and silver coins and a bottle and he drunk the vodka and fell asleep and the monk appeared in his dream and said "I did many good deeds and you took my life, now you will do my good deeds!" and Faddei woke up and immediately went two villages over and at the church asked the priest if this is St. Salvey with the busted bell and do they expect Brother Timoftei from Hadiach monastery with money for a new bell and the priest told him that yes, this was St. Salvey and yes, their bell is busted but no, he does not know a Brother Timoftei and no, there is no monastery in Hadiach and so Faddei gave him the money to get a new bell and went and dug up his treasure and threw away his very large and very sharp knives and he got a donkey to carry his riches and went to Hadiach where he changed his name to Brother Josaphat and founded a monastery and learned how to heal animals for all people in the area. On November 12th, 1623 an angry mob put large and sharp knifes into Brother Josaphat (for religious reasons) killing him on the spot and he was canonized in 1867 by Pius IX and is celebrated everywhere on the first Sunday after November 12th and since 1961, also at 143 Franklin Ave. Toronto, Ontario.