A baptismal name for a boy
Jacob
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Jacob
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Righteous JacobDecember 13Son of Isaac, called Israel, from whose twelve sons the tribes of Israel descend.
Righteous Jacob NetsvetovJuly 26Aleut Creole priest who continued the mission of Saint Innocent among the native peoples of Alaska..png)
Venerable Jacob of Zheleznyi BorokApril 11Son of a boyar of Galich, a monk at the Zheleznoborovsk Monastery, who died in 1442.
Fool-for-Christ Jacob of BorovichiOctober 23By tradition a pious boatman and fool for Christ, killed by thunder about 1540, honored at Borovichi.
Venerable Jacob of TumanAugust 8Serbian monk and doctor of law, born Radoje Arsović in 1894, who studied in France; he died in 1946.
Venerable Jacob of GalichApril 4Monk of Galich, who died in the second half of the fifteenth century; little is known of his life.
Venerable Jacob of OmuchOctober 21Monk of Konevets, organizer of the Omuch Hermitage in the Luga region; died in 1412.
Hieromartyr Jacob ShestakovDecember 10Priest, local historian, writer and publisher, born in 1858, who died a martyr in 1918; glorified in 2000.
Righteous Jacob, father of JosephAncestor of the Lord, son of Matthan and father of Joseph, in the genealogy of the Gospel of Matthew..jpg)
Hieromartyr Jacob MaskaevJuly 16Archbishop of Barnaul, born in Uralsk, who died a martyr in 1937; canonized in 2000.
New Martyr Jacob of KastoriaNovember 1New martyr from Kastoria, who suffered at Adrianople in the early 16th century.- Hieromartyr Jacob BoykovApril 6Russian priest from Bezhetsk who died in 1934 in a camp in the Sverdlovsk region; canonized in 2000.
Questions
The name day of Jacob is December 13, the feast of Righteous Jacob. It is also kept on July 26, April 11, October 23, August 8, April 4, October 21, December 10, July 16.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Jacob, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Jacob is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Righteous Jacob as patron.