Jacob of Galich

Holy Venerable Jacob of Galich struggled in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Starotorzhsky monastery in the town of Galich, Kostroma region, near the place called Stolbishche or the Old Settlement. It is supposed that the Starotorzhsky monastery was founded by Venerable Jacob of Zheleznoborovsk (commemorated on 11 April). Venerable Jacob reposed as a schemamonk and was buried beneath the altar of the monastery church, dedicated to Saints Boris and Gleb. He became known through miracles after death. His image was painted after the image of Venerable Zosima of Solovki (commemorated on 17 April).

He is commemorated on 5 February, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kostroma.