The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 16

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Agape, Chionia and Irene of Thessalonica.

Virgins. Sisters from Aquileia. Martyred at Thessalonica under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: December 22.

Synax.CP, April 16, par. 1 (cols. 605-6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36r. Agape, Chionia and Irene. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 66).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Agape. Martyrdom, stabbing with sword. Agape, wearing a jewelled headdress, is stabbed in the neck with a sword by an executioner holding a club in his left hand. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 211, fig. T III 34b; Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 50; Petković, Dečani, p. 17, pl. CXXV).

Thessaloniki, Nicholas Orphanos. Agape, Chionia and Irene. Martyrdom, burning. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 257, fig. 4; Tsitouridou, p. 181, pl. 74).

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