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A certain Jacob of
Seert is mentioned in some East Syrian sources as a disciple of Abraham of Kashkar and
described as the co-founder of a monastery near Siirt and Arzun (in the region of
Bohtan) which
he established together with an otherwise unidentified monk, Mar
Ḥbisha, at an unknown date in the sixth century.
Names
- Jacob the Reclus
- Jacob of Seert
- JACQUES LE RECLUS1
- Jacques de Seert5
- Jaʿqūb le reclus7
- Yaʿqub Ḥebīša7
- Yaʿqub Ḥbisha
Sex
male1
Notes
A certain Jacob of Seert is mentioned in some East Syrian sources as a disciple of Abraham of Kashkar and described as the co-founder of a monastery near Siirt and Arzun (in the region of Bohtan) which he established together with an otherwise unidentified monk, Mar Ḥbisha, at an unknown date in the sixth century.In hagiography: Over time the identities of Mar Ḥbisha (which means "recluse") and Jacob became conflated into a single saint, "Jacob the Recluse", commemorated by the Church of the East on October 19.Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 226.
- 2 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté, ed. Jean Baptiste Chabot (Rome, 1896), http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/lelivredelachast00ishduoft, entry: n° 24.
- 3 Addai Scher, Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: IIp: 151.
- 4 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: IIp: 320.
- 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Nisibe, Métropole Syriaque Orientale et Ses Suffragants Des Origines à Nos Jours, CSCO 388, Subs. 54 (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1977), p: 205entry: B.1.
- 6 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 1023.
- 7 Florence Jullien, Le Monachisme En Perse: La Réforme d’Abraham Le Grand, Père Des Moines de l’Orient, CSCO 622, Subs. 121 (Leuven: Peeters, 2008), p: 179-180, 248.
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