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Josh David Jordan’s script for El Tonto Por Cristo is drawn from real accounts of the lives of saints and monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the lines between the mystical, the enchanted, and the real continue to be blurred to this day. Jordan’s film explores the question, “what would it look like for one of these saints to walk amongst us today?”. Learn more about the inspirations for the film about an unlikely saint:

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 1 Corinthians 4:10

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written:
He catches the wise in their craftiness. (1 Corinthians 3:19)

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him,
God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)

This Story is True:

Discover more about the true lives of the most unlikely of saints that inspired the script for El Tonto Por Cristo.

St. John the Dwarf

St. Genesius

St. Procipius of Ustyug

St. Basil the Blessed, Wonderworker and Fool-for-Christ

St. John the Blessed of Moscow

St. John the Wonder Worker