Name
Jacob/James the Dismembered, martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421
Saint ID
S01660
Number in BH
BHG 772-772c, BHO 394-398
Reported Death Not Before
421
Reported Death Not After
422
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Converts, Officials and professionals
| ID | Title | E03924 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 12 November *Jacob the Dismembered (martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421, S01660), *Menas (soldier and martyr of Abu Mena, S00073), and *Ioannes/John the Almsgiver (patriarch of Alexandria, ob. 616/620, 01659). | E03939 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 27 November *John II (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 417, S00172), and *John III (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 524, S00194), and *Jacob the Dismembered (martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421, S01660). | E03940 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 November *Atticus (unidentified martyr, S01826), *Jacob the Dismembered (martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421, S01660), *Pamphilos and companions (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00140), *Irenarchos (probably the martyr of Sebasteia, S00623), *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889), and *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288). | E05030 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 24 November. | E06642 | Greek version of the Martyrdom of *Jacob/James the Dismembered (martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421, S01660). Skeleton entry | E07053 | Coptic Martyrdom of *James/Iakobos the Dismembered (S01660), relating the circumstances of the translation of his remains, first from Persia to Jerusalem, and then, with Peter the Iberian, from Jerusalem via Alexandria to Oxyrhynchos in Middle Egypt, where a martyr shrine is built for his relics that soon becomes a successful healing shrine; probably written sometime during the 6th c. | E07154 | The Syriac Martyrdom of *Jacob the Dismembered (martyr in Persia, ob. 421, S01660) is produced by an anonymous Syriac-speaking writer It describes the martyrdom of the Christian Jacob in the city of Bet Lāpāṭ in Khuzistan during the reign of Bahram V (r. 420-438). Written in Persia, possibly during the 5th or 6th century. |
|---|