Foundation in the Mezen Region
Job came from the Solovki Monastery, the great northern house in the White Sea, where his father is recorded under the name Patrick Mazovsky. After his ordination as a hieromonk, he was sent in 1614 to the Mezen region of the Russian north.
At the confluence of the Rivers Ezeg and Vazhka with the River Mezen he first built a chapel honoring the Nativity of Christ. The early community was poor, and its monks lived among lay relatives until a grant of lands and fishing rights from Tsar Michael allowed Job to construct a church and monastic cells, placing the new foundation on a stable footing.
Martyrdom
On August 5, 1628, while the monks were at work in the hayfields, robbers attacked the monastery. They tortured Job in the hope of seizing the community's treasury, then beheaded him. Finding nothing of value, they departed.
The brethren buried his body with honor. His death is remembered as that of a martyr, slain in the course of his monastic labors in the northern wilderness.
Veneration and Relics
About fifty miracles attributed to Job were recorded over the course of the 17th century. His first icon was painted in 1658, and his Life was composed in the 1660s.
A chapel raised over his relics later became a church dedicated to the Righteous Job. On November 3, 1739, Archbishop Barsanuphios examined the relics, and it was blessed to chant a Moleben to the saint, formally establishing his glorification.
In iconography Job is depicted as a bearded, greyish schema-monk holding a scroll that quotes Matthew 10:28.
