Память преподобного отца нашего Иакова, епископа и исповедника

The information we have about Saint James the Confessor is very brief and incomplete. We only know that he, striving from a very young age for an ascetic life, took monastic orders and mortified his flesh with constant fasting and prayer. Saint James was very fond of reading the books of the Holy Scriptures, and before reading he cleansed his mind with prayer. He was subsequently elevated to the rank of bishop. During the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine Copronymus in 2065, Saint James was forced to renounce icon veneration. But he did not submit to the wicked, for which he was subjected to many torments - he was expelled, imprisoned, tormented by hunger and thirst, - he suffered many other different torments that his tormentors invented. In the midst of his suffering, he betrayed his holy soul to God, for whose sake he labored; From Him he received the Kingdom of Heaven, rejoicing forever in heaven. Constantine Copronymus, Byzantine emperor, reigned from 741 to 776. He was a most zealous iconoclast. His reign was the time when iconoclasm reached its greatest flowering. You might be interested in: