Simeon

Holy Righteous Simeon was one of the twelve sons of the patriarch Jacob and the forefather of the tribe of Simeon, of the people of Israel.

The sources consulted mention him only in the calendar, without a life of his own. From Holy Scripture it is known that he was the second son of Jacob and Leah and that, when his brothers came to Egypt for grain, Joseph held him bound as a pledge until they returned with Benjamin (Genesis 42-43). The saint is commemorated on the Sundays before the Nativity: on 27 December, a movable date, on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, and on 3 January, a movable date, on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers, in the new style.