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Haggai (
Hebrew:
חַגַּי,
Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one of the twelve
minor prophets and the author of the
Book of Haggai. His name means "my feast". He was the first of three prophets (with
Zechariah, his contemporary, and
Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), whose ministry belonged to the period of
Jewish history which began after the return from
captivity in
Babylon.
Scarcely anything is known of his personal history. He may have been one of the
captives taken to Babylon by
Nebuchadnezzar. He began his ministry about sixteen years after the
return of the Jews to Judah (ca. 520 BCE). The work of rebuilding the
temple had been put to a stop through the intrigues of the
Samaritans. After having been suspended for eighteen years, the work was resumed through the efforts of Haggai and Zechariah. They exhorted the people, which roused them from their lethargy, and induced them to take advantage of a change in the policy of the Persian government under
Darius the Great.
The name Haggai, with various vocalizations, is also found in the
Book of Esther, as a
eunuch servant of the
Queen.
Liturgical commemoration
On the
liturgical calendar followed by the
Eastern Orthodox Church and those
Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the
Byzantine Rite, Haggai is commemorated as a
saint and prophet. His
feast day is
December 16 (for those churches which follow the traditional
Julian Calendar, December 16 currently falls on
December 29 of the modern
Gregorian Calendar). He is also commemorated, in common with the other righteous persons of the Old Testament, on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (the Sunday before the
Nativity of the Lord).
Haggai is commemorated with the other
Minor prophets in the
Calendar of saints of the
Armenian Apostolic Church on
July 31.
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