Jacob of Nisibis


Jacob of Nisibis
Head reliquary of St. Jacob of Nisibis, Hildesheim
Bishop of Nisibis
BornNisibis, Roman Empire
(modern-day Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey)
Died337/338[1] or 350[2][3][4][5]
Nisibis, Roman Empire
(modern-day Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey)
Venerated inChurch of the East
Eastern Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox Church
Eastern Catholic Churches
Roman Catholic Church
Major shrineChurch of Saint Jacob of Nisibis
Feast
  • Friday after the First Sunday of Qaitha (Church of the East)
  • 13 January & 31 October (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • 15 July (Syriac Orthodox Church & Roman Catholic Church)
  • 18 Tobi (Coptic Orthodox Church)

Saint Jacob of Nisibis (Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ ܢܨܝܒܢܝܐ, Yaʿqôḇ Nṣîḇnāyâ; Greek: Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος Ἐπίσκοπος Μυγδονίας; Armenian: Յակոբ Մծբնայ Yakob Mtsbnay), also known as Saint Jacob of Mygdonia,[6][note 1] Saint Jacob the Great,[7] and Saint James of Nisibis, was a hermit, a grazer and the Bishop of Nisibis until his death.[8]

He was lauded as the "Moses of Mesopotamia", and was the spiritual father of the renowned writer and theologian Saint Ephrem the Syrian.[7] Saint Jacob was present at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea, and is venerated as a saint by the Church of the East, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Eastern Catholic Churches.

  1. ^ Bundy (2013), p. 602
  2. ^ January 13/January 26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  3. ^ St James the Bishop of Nisibis. Orthodox Church in America - Lives of the Saints.
  4. ^ Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. JAMES, B. OF NISIBIS. (CIRC. A.D. 350.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Seventh: July - Part I. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 351-357.
  5. ^ Frend (1972), p. 8
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference SYNAX was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Venables (1911)
  8. ^ Jotischky, Andrew (2011). A hermit's cookbook: monks, food and fasting in the Middle Ages. London New York, NY: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-2393-1.


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