Packet 2: Tossup 11

Apocryphally, a man with this name prayed to an icon of Saint Mercurius, causing the icon to come to life and kill Julian the Apostate. In the Byzantine Rite, a liturgy with this name replaces that of Saint John Chrysostom 10 days each year. The third slice of a sweet bread baked with a coin is reserved for a saint with this name on his feast day. Monks on Mount Athos follow a rule made by a saint (10[1])with this name (-5[1])who is celebrated in Greece as a Christmas (-5[1])gift-giver. (-5[1])That saint (10[1])with this name is grouped with two Gregorys as the Cappadocian (10[1])Fathers, (-5[3])and (10[1])was from Caesarea. A naked shoplifter (10[1]-5[1])with this name is the best known bearer (-5[1])of the epithet “Fool for Christ,” (10[1])and is buried in a namesake church built to honor (10[2])the conquest of Kazan by Ivan IV. For 10 points, a saint with what name is the dedicatee of a colorful cathedral (10[3])in (10[2])Red Square? (10[3])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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