St. John Jacob the Hozevite

Ilie Iacob was a Romanian orphan from Bukovina who became a monk at Neamț and in 1936 went to the Holy Land. He lived as a hermit in a cave near the monastery of St. George in the Wadi Qelt, writing poetry and praying. He died at 47, and when his body was uncovered twenty years later it was found incorrupt. It rests in the monastery church.

• Feast: August 5 (New Calendar)
• Lived: 1913–1960
• Place: Monastery of St. George, Choziba
• Relics today: Monastery of St. George, Choziba