The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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George of Lydda.

Soldier. Martyred at Lydda in Palestine under Dadianus (or at Nicomedia under Diocletian).

SEE ALSO: November 26.

Synax.CP, April 23, par. 1 (cols. 623-6).

Simeon Metaphrastes, April 23.

Messina, San Salvatore 27, fol. 256r. Soldier, holding spear and sword. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 78, figs. 2D10-1D11).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 67).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Torture, wheel. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 61).

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

Treskavac. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 313, fig. 39, pl. 160).

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