The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 20

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(Theodore Trichinas.

Hermit in Thrace. 5th cen.?

Synax.CP, April 20, par. 1 (cols. 615-6).

BiblSS XII 285-6; Holweck 960; LCI VIII 451.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36v. Monk. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 67).

Gračanica. South aisle, south wall. Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 297, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).

Januarius of Beneventum.

Bishop of Beneventum. Martyred at Puteoli under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: September 19.

Synax.CP, April 20, par. 2 (cols. 617-8); April 21, Synax. selecta (cols. 617-8).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36v. April 21. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 67).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. April 21. Januarius? Bishop. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 61).

Tryphon of Constantinople.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 927-931.

Synax.CP, April 20, par. 3 (col. 617); April 19, Synax. selecta (cols. 615-6).

BiblSS XII 655-6; Fedalto 6; Holweck 990.

George the Confessor. br>George of Antioch in Pisidia.

Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia, before 787-ca. 816. Confessor during Iconoclasm under Leo V the Armenian.

Synax.CP, April 20, par. 4 (cols. 617-618); April 18, Synax. selecta (cols. 609-612).

DHGE XX 591-2; BiblSS VI 533-4; Fedalto 255; Holweck 423.

Gračanica. South aisle, south wall. March 18. George? Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 27 [not identified]; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17 [not identified]).

Christopher, Theonas II and Antoninus of Nicomedia.

Companions of George of Lydda. Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, April 20, par. 5 (cols. 617-8); April 19, Synax. selecta (cols. 613-6).

BiblSS XII 1296-8; Holweck 209-10.

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. April 19. Martyrdom, burning.³⁹ (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 214, fig. T III 35; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

SEE ALSO: Anastasius the Sinaite, April 21

³⁹ Identified by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 214, who transcribe the partially preserved inscription with the name of Christopher.