The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 18

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Florus and Laurus of Illyricum.

Brothers. Stone masons. Martyred in Illyricum under Hadrian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 18, par. 1 (cols. 907-8).

BHG 660-664m; BiblSS V 946-7; DHGE XVII 644-5; Holweck 391; LCI VI 256-7.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52r. Martyrdom, drowning in well. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 98).

Cozia. East wall. Martyrdom, drowning in well. Two heads are visible in the opening of a well. Fragmentary scene. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 361, fig. 61, pl. 259).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Florus and Laurus. Martyrs, holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Martyrdom, drowning in well. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 8, pl. 118; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

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Hermes, Serapion and Polyaenus of Rome.
Hermas of Rome.

Martyred at Rome at an unknown time.

Synax.CP, Aug. 28, par. 2 (col. 908).

BHG 2169; BiblSS V 9-10; Holweck 475.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52r. Martyrdom, dragging. Three saints, one nude, prostrate, are bound together. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 98).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, drowning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

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George I of Constantinople.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 679-686.

Synax.CP, Aug. 18, par. 5 (col. 908).

BiblSS VI 543-4; DHGE XX 614; Fedalto 5; Holweck 424; LCI VI 391.

SEE ALSO: Charesimus and Neophytus of Tarsus, August 22

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