James the Confessor
March 21
This Saint took up the monastic life from his youth in the Monastery of Studium, where he became a disciple of Saint Theodore the Studite. Later he became bishop and suffered many afflictions and torments at the hands of the Iconoclasts. Saint Theodore composed a homily in honour of this Saint James (PG 99, 1353-1356).
READING COURTESY OF HOLY TRANSFIGURATION MONASTERY, BROOKLINE, MA



Thomas I, Patriarch of Constantinople