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James the Hermit
hermit in Palestine
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 28 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Commemoration of Saint James, a hermit in Palestine, who as a penance shut himself up for a long time in a tomb.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 28 January as a hermit in Palestine who shut himself up for a long time in a tomb as a penance.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 28 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R6c836c63 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.