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In the heart of the Bessarabia, at 16 km far from Chişinău, as an opened eye of sky in the middle of the green fields, the Monastery of Saint Jacob the Persian the Great Martyr, a contemporaneous monastic foundation that is desired not to put to shame the tradition, but to continue it creatively.

Sireţi village, where the monastery is located, is in Străşeni district, a village with old tarditions that deepens its roots into the darkness of the times up to Saint Voivode Stephen the Great, whose soldiers came from Vrancea Mountains and from the valley of Siret River in order to be closer to the border that was being threatened and tread by the heathen hordes.

On 10^th September, 1998, those three monks and servants of the Church of Saint Hierarch Nicholas, protosingel Porfirie, hieromonk Teodor, and hierodeacon Natanael, sanctified the place for the church, but on 24^th May, 1999, the groundwork was set for the Church of Saint Jacob the Persian the Great Martyr, the church that was consecrated one year later, on 29^th October, 2000.

To this community, Protohiereus Mihail Cazacu joined, having a fervor and godliness similar to those of niptic fathers of eastern church, of great benefactors and founders of monastic centers, he sanctified the place of the big church with patron day of “Annunciation” and “Saint John Jacob from Hozeva from Neamţ”, on 15^th September, 2004.

On 22th March, 2005, construction works for the big church started, which were finished in September, 2006, wholly on expenditures of father Mihail Cazacu. Sireţi Monastery owns a rich invaluable spiritual treasure, and namely important parts of relics of many saints, and namely:

• The Holy Apostle Zacchaeus 20^th April/ 3^rd May
• The Holy Hierarch Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea from Cappadocia 1^st/ 14^th January
• The Holy Hierarch Nicholas Archbishop of Myra in Lycia 6^th/ 19^th December
• The Holy Hierarch Ambrose bishop of Milan 7^th/ 20^th December
• St. Porphyrius Archbishop of Gaza 26^th/ 11^th March
• The Holy Hierarch Gelasius of Rimet 30^th June/ 13^th July
• St. Jacob the Persian 27^th November/ 10^th December
• St. George the Trophy-bearer 23^rd April/ 6^th May
• The Holy Great-martyr Mercurius 24^th November/ 7^th December
• The Holy Great-martyr Theodor Tyro 17^th February/ 2^nd March
• The Holy Martyrs Zoticos, Atalos, Filipos, and Camasis 4^th/ 7^th June
• The 14,000 Holy Infants slain by Herod 29^th December/ 11^th January
• The Holy Righteous Fathers slain at Sinai and Raith 14^th/ 17^th January
• The Holy Righteous Fathers massacred by Arabs in St. Sava’s Monastery 20^th March/ 2^nd April
• The Holy Righteous Fathers slain by Persians at Hozeva
• The Holy Righteous Martyrs Efthimios, Ignatius, and Acacius 1^st/ 14^th May
• The 40 Holy Martyrs from Sevastia 9^th/ 22^nd March
• The Holy Father Antipas the Athonite 10^th/ 23^rd January
• The Holy Righteous John Jacob from Hozeva 5^th/ 18 August
• The Holy Righteous Symeon the New Theologian 12^th/ 25^th March
• The Holy Righteous Stylianos of Paphlagonia 26^th/ 9^th December
• The Holy Righteous Seraphim of Sarov 2^nd/ 15^th January
• The Holy Righteous Moses the Hungarian 26^th July/ 8^th August
• The Holy Righteous Silouan the Athonite 24^th September/ 7^th October
• The Holy Righteous Onuphrius from Vorona Hermitage 9^th/ 22^nd September
• The Holy Righteous Theoctistus 3^rd/16^th September
• The Holy Martyr Kiriaki 7^th/ 20^th July
• The Holy Righteous Kuksha of Odessa
• A small piece of the The Holy Cross wood.

All these Holy relics are exposed for worshiping in the church of St. Jacob the Persian.

The Saint patrons of churches of Sireţi Monastery.

Among many great celebrations of monastery, a special one is on 27th November/ 10th December, when The Orthodox Church celebrates St. Jacob the Persian the Great Martyr, which is the protector of the monastery and whose relics are preserved here, shedding gifts of spiritual and bodily healing.

St. Jacob the Persian the Great Martyr is known as being deliverer of spiritual and bodily passions.

The second patron day is the Annunciation that is celebrated on 25th March/ 7th April, All-holy Birth-giver to God being the protector of monks.

The third patron day is the celebration of Our Venerable Father John Jacob from Hozeva on 5th/ 18th August.