Jacob the Reclus
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Jacob the Reclus; Jacob of Seert; Jaʿqūb le reclus; JACQUES LE RECLUS; Yaʿqub Ḥbisha; Yaʿqub Ḥebīša; Jacques de Seert
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/1298
identifier: 226
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.
male
state: Saint
Saints Syriaques JACQUES LE RECLUS 226
Le livre de la chasteté n° 24
Chronique de Seert II 151
Šuhadā' II 320
J.M. Fiey Nisibe, métropole syriaque orientale et ses suffragants des origines à nos jours 205 B.1
J.M. Fiey BSO I 1023
Florence Jullien Le monachisme en Perse: la réforme d’Abraham le Grand, père des moines de l’Orient 179-180, 248