ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of December WELCOME! SAINT JACOB, PATRIARCH Joseph and Jacob reunited Saint Jacob, Patriarch, is commemorated on December 19 and October 6. In the year of the world 2168 (1836 BC), when the patriarch Isaac was 60 years old, his wife Rebekah bore him twins: Esau , who is also known as Edom , from whom the Edomites or Idumeans descended. He was nicknamed Edom (which means red ) because of his reddish color and the equally reddish lentil porridge (mentioned in Genesis 25:30), and Jacob , who was later also called Israel , who is the immediate progenitor of the Israelite people. Even in the womb, the two brothers fought with each other, and when Rebekah inquired of the Lord about this, she received the answer that there were actually two peoples in her womb, and that the older would serve the younger (Genesis 25:22, 23). At the birth itself, Jacob held Esau's heel (Hebrew: akeb ), which is why he was n...