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Father Ferapont

Also known as Ferapont.

Father Ferapont is an austere monk who lives apart from the main life of the hermitage and opposes the institution of elders. Visitors and some monks revere his fasting, silence, visions, and rudeness as signs of holiness, while others plainly see madness in him. At his first full appearance, he stands as a rival model to Father Zossima: severe, suspicious, anti-intellectual, and terrifyingly bodily in his asceticism.

VII-I. The Breath Of Corruption

After Father Zossima's Coffin becomes the center of scandal, Ferapont bursts into the cell to cast out devils and treats the decay as a sign against Zossima.

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