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Jacob the Recluse - ܝܥܩܘܒ

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Jacob the Recluse fled for the desert of Egypt during the persecution of the emperor Julian. He then headed to East to Mesopotamia with companions. They lived in a tower. Eventually he built a monastery at Salah in Ṭur ʿAbdin.

Names

  • ܝܥܩܘܒ1
  • Jacob the Recluse
  • Jacob the Reclus
  • JACQUES LE RECLUS2
  • Jacques le Reclus1
  • Jacques le Reclus (de Salah)1
  • St Jacob the Recluse5
  • Yaʾqōḇ1
  • Yaʿqōb

Death

421

Sex

male2

Notes

Jacob the Recluse fled for the desert of Egypt during the persecution of the emperor Julian. He then headed to East to Mesopotamia with companions. They lived in a tower. Eventually he built a monastery at Salah in Ṭur ʿAbdin.
Nau offers a summary of his story.3
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1233, 974.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 227.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 François Nau,Résumé de Monographies Syriaques: Barṣauma, Abraham de La Haute Montagne, Siméon de Kefar ‘Abdin, Yaret l’Alexandrin, Jacques Le Reclus, Romanus, Talia, Asia, Pantaléon, Candida, Sergis et Abraham de Cašcar,Revue de l’Orient Chrétien II, 8 [18] (1913): 270–76, 379–89; 9 [19] (1914), 113–34, 278–89, 414–40; 10 [20] (1915-1917), 3–32, p: 3-12.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: VI, p: 353.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Jacob the Recluse.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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