James the Deacon

Saint

James the Deacon
Diedafter 671
Venerated in
CanonizedPre-Congregation
Feast17 August or 11 October

James the Deacon [a] (died after 671) was a Roman deacon who accompanied Paulinus of York on his mission to Northumbria. He was a member of the Gregorian mission, which went to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. However, when he arrived in England is unknown. After Paulinus left Northumbria, James stayed near Lincoln and continued his missionary efforts, dying sometime after 671, according to the medieval chronicler Bede.

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