James

Venerable James of Cyrrhestica was a monk of the fourth century who lived in the region of Cyrrhestica in Syria, as Blessed Theodoret of Cyrrhus shows in his Religious History. He was a follower of Saint Maron and practiced the same open-⁠air asceticism for which the Maronites would later be known. He was distinguished by wearing iron chains on his body as a remedy for his sins.