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June 23 · Bishop

St. Jacob of Toul

St. Jacob of Toul

Traditional feast

June 23
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on June 23 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Galiican Martyrologies. Authority The lections in the Breviary of Langres.] S. Jacob governed the church of Toul in the 8th century, with singular discretion, being a burning and a shining light to his people. He subscribed the canons of the council of Compi£gne in 757. Towards the close of his days, finding himself no longer able to discharge the duties of his office, he resigned his bishopric and retired into a monastery. He made a pilgrimage to Rome in his old age, and on his way back, worn out with the exertion, he rested at Dijon. There he visited the tomb of S. Benignus, and whilst kneeling in prayer there, his soul fled, and he was laid beside the (June *y saint. His sister, Liliosa, who was wealthy, gave the monks of S. Benignus a farm at Bertignacourt, in acknowledgment of their hospitality shewn to the old bishop.

Feast days

Feast: June 23

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Jacob of Toul's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.