The Holy Fool has been a common trope in Christian literature for some time. You can reasonably trace it back to St Paul who, writing in 1 Corinthians, spoke of how the wisdom of God looks to the world like foolishness. You could even push the theme back further into the Old Testament when David feigned madness while in the courts of the Philistines.
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