Holy Prophet Jonah

Life

He lived more than 800 years before Christ. In his biography it is said that he was the son of that widow in Zarephath of Sidon whom the Prophet Elijah raised from the dead. By his three-day sojourn in the belly of the whale, holy Jonah prefigured Christ's three-day sojourn in the grave, and his deliverance from the belly of the whale prefigured the Resurrection of the Lord from the dead. All the rest concerning this wondrous prophet should be read in the Book of the Prophet Jonah.