One time they offered to promote Saint Ephraim the Syrian to the office of Bishop but he started rolling around in the dirt and pretending that he had gone mad. This was done out of humility so that people wouldn't praise him.

Saint Ephraim the Syrian was an Orthodox Christian in the fourth century and one time he was going to debate a heretic and he took the heretic's book and glued all the pages together so that the heretic couldn't read his notes and then the heretic gave up and left.