According to
Valentin Yanin, a hero of the
Battle of Kulikovo, and Anna Ivanovna, daughter of Grand Prince
Ivan II of Moscow, and sister of
Dmitry Donskoy. A
hagiography of the saint, was written in 1478–1479, redacted in the 1490s, and again in 1537. Although folklorish in nature, it provides the earliest literary evidence for Michael's activities in the monastery. During the period of the
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars, a mysterious fool-for-Christ's-sake appeared in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity. Sometime after being accepted by the monastery, but still nameless to his fellow monks, he was recognized by prince
Konstantin Dmitrievich (1389–1433), who visited the monastery with his wife in 1413, as "our Mikhail". Among the miracles attributed to the saint by the hagiography are the conversion of robbers, one of whom became the monk Dorofey, the discovery of an inexhaustible fountain, the prediction of weather, and various other acts of
clairvoyance and
prophecy. Michael died in 1456 and was canonized by the
Russian Orthodox Church a century later, in 1547. His memory is commemorated by the
Eastern Orthodox Church on
January 11. His relics are venerated at the Klopsky Monastery. ==References==