Head reliquary of St. Jacob of Nisibis, Hildesheim
Bishop of Nisibis
Born
Nisibis, Roman Empire (modern-day Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey)
Died
337/338[1] or 350[2][3][4][5] Nisibis, Roman Empire (modern-day Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey)
Venerated in
Church of the East Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Church Eastern Catholic Churches Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine
Church 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 ՄծբնայYakob 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.
^St James the Bishop of Nisibis. Orthodox Church in America - Lives of the Saints.
^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.
^Frend (1972), p. 8
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^ abVenables (1911)
^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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