Two young brothers of Meniugi near Novgorod who reposed in childhood and were venerated after their relics were found incorrupt.
The Holy Righteous Youths John and Jacob of Meniugi
John and Jacob (also rendered James) of Meniugi were two young brothers venerated in the Novgorod region of Rus'. According to the surviving account they were the children of a pious couple, Isidore and Barbara, and died in early childhood, killed by malefactors, Jacob at the age of three and John at the age of five.
Their veneration arose after their relics were discovered incorrupt later in the seventeenth century. The brothers are commemorated together on June 24, and the historical record preserved about them is brief, reflecting their standing as a local commemoration rather than a widely documented hagiographical tradition.
Between the years 1682 and 1689 the relics of the two brothers were found incorrupt. They were placed in a reliquary at the Trinity church in the village of Meniugi, in the Novgorod diocese, on the site of a former Trinity monastery. This shrine became the focus of their local veneration.
Named sibling pair commemorated as one.