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[[File:HamatouraIcon-730x1024.jpg|thumb|Icon of the life of St. Jacob with Our Lady of Hamatoura]]
Hieromartyr Jacob of Hamatoura was a 13th-century monk in the Northern Lebanese [[Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos]], a community in Hamatoura Monastery. His feast day is October 13. He is a recently rediscovered saint and is revered in Lebanon and by faithful throughout the world, but is still relatively unknown to the wider Orthodox Church, being in only a few synaxarions.