Our Holy Father James the Solitary
Commemorated November 26
James was from Syria. He was a disciple of St. Maron (February 14) and a contemporary of St. Simeon the Stylite. He lived a life of asceticism under the open sky and ate soaked lentils. He performed great miracles, even raising the dead in the name of Christ. Emperor Leo asked him for his thoughts on the Council of Chalcedon [451]. He entered peacefully into rest in the year 457 A.D.
Troparion
You were a pillar of patient endurance,
having having imitated the forefathers, O Venerable One:
Job in suffering, and Joseph in temptations.
You lived like the Bodiless Ones while yet in the flesh, O Alypius, our Father.
Beseech Beseech Christ God that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion
The Church glorifies and praises you today, Alypius,
as a perfect example of virtue and the boast of ascetics.
Through your prayers, grant remission of sins to all who venerate your life and your struggles.
Source: The Prologue of Ohrid