- Jacob of Nisibis was recruited from his naked life in the wilds of Syria to become a local bishop. ... Sometimes the saint goes to society, as with Jacob of Nisibis.
- Saint Theodoret relates that the bones of Saint Jacob were transferred from Nisibis to Edessa following the city's cession to Iran on 22 August 363.
- Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration." Saint John Chrysostom. ... Commemoration of St Jacob of Nisibis.
- It was under the bishopric of St. Jacob that St. Ephrem the Syrian flourished. St. Jacob died peacefully in Nisibis in 338. The Syriac Orthodox Church...
- Ephrem of Syria, recognized as a Doctor of the Church by Roman Catholics, Armenians, Syro-Malabar Catholics, and Anglicans, considered Saint Jacob to be his...
- Saint Jacob of Nisibis, a monk. First bishop of Nisibis, Mesopotamia (current Nusaybin, Turkey) from 309 until his demise. Profound chief of Saint Ephrem of Syria.
- Saint Jacob of Nisibis' relics are in the church he founded in Nisibis. He is commemorated in the Coptic Synaxarion on the 18th day of Month of Tobi...
- http://syrorthodoxchurch.com/english-Dateien/st_jacob_of_nisibis.html. ... St.Jacob is from Nisibis. He came from the tribe and family of saint James.
- Jacob of Nisibis (Syriac , Yaq Nny died c.AD338 or 350), was a Syriac bishop still venerated as a saint.
- Mar Yakov Church (Mor Yakub Church). Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis. ... Church of Saint Jacob and the surrounding excavation site (January 2023).