The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 17

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Simeon of Persia.

Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Martyred with companions under Shapur II.

Synax.CP, April 17, par. 1 (col. 607); April 14, Synax. selecta (cols. 601-2).

BiblSS XI 1097-1000; Fedalto 891; Holweck 917.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36r. Simeon and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. Simeon, a bishop, is about to be beheaded. The decapitated bodies of several companions lie on the ground; another companion stands at the left. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 66).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. April 14. Simeon?³⁸ Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 209, fig. T III 33; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

³⁸ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 209.

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Sabas the Goth.

Lector. Visigoth. Martyred under Athanarich in 372.

Synax.CP, April 17, par. 4 (cols. 608-9); April 18, Synax. selecta (cols. 611-614).

BHG 1607; BiblSS XI 531-3; Holweck 875; LCI VIII 295-6.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36r. April 18. Sabas and companions. Five martyrs. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 66).

SEE ALSO: Agapitus I of Rome, April 18

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