The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 25

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Mark the Evangelist.

Apostle and evangelist. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, April 25, par. 1 (cols. 627-8).

BHG 1035-1038t; BiblSS VIII 711-38; Holweck 661; LCI VII 549-62; ODCC 874-5; ODS 285-6.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 37r. Torture, dragging. Mark, nude, lies face down on the ground. A torturer fastens a rope around his ankles. (Hutter, II, p. 22, fig. 68).

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

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Apostle, holding book. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 218, fig. T III 36; Mijović, Menolog, p. 338, fig. 50; Petković, Dečani, p. 17, pl. CXXVI).

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

Treskavac. Narthex, west wall. Torture, dragging. Mark, wearing a loin cloth, prone on the ground, is dragged by two torturers with a rope tied around his ankles. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 313, fig. 39, pl. 160).

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