St. James the Confessor the Bishop of Catania; St. Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt (Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete)

Published by Iulian Dumitraşcu
21.03.2018

Saint James, Bishop and Confessor,was inclined toward the ascetic life from his early years. Saint James left the world and entered the Studite monastery, where he was tonsured. He led a strict life, full of works, fasting and prayer.

Pious and well-versed in Holy Scripture, Saint James was elevated to the bishop’s throne of Catania (Sicily).During the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine V Copronymos (741-775), Saint James was repeatedly urged not to venerate the holy icons.

They exhausted him in prison, starved him, and beat him, but he bravely endured all these torments. Saint James died in exile.

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