Venerable
Jacob Trikanas
Abbot of the Great Lavra
Palamite abbot of the Great Lavra, author of a spiritual testament in 1363; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 136314th century
- Place
- Great Lavra, Mount Athos
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Jacob Trikanas was abbot of the Great Lavra on the Holy Mountain in the fourteenth century, a supporter of St Gregory Palamas. He reposed in 1363 and is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.
He is remembered chiefly for his spiritual testament of 1363, in which he gives the brotherhood moral instructions together with a confession of faith. It ends with the appeal: be saved, my holy fathers, be saved, and again I say, be saved.