The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 21

Select a month: Select month January February March April May June July August September October November December

Select a day: Select day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

---

Jude the Apostle.
Judas Thaddeus the Apostle; Thaddeus the Apostle.

Apostle. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: June 19.

Synax.CP, Aug. 21, par. 1 (cols. 911-2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52r. Apostle, holding book. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 98).

Cozia. East wall. Apostle. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 361, fig. 61).

---

Bassa of Larissa and her sons.

Bassa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius and Pistus, martyred under Maximian. The location is uncertain.

Synax.CP, Aug. 21, par. 2 (cols. 912-4).

BHG 268-270b; BiblSS II 960-1; DHGE VI 1259; Holweck 141; LCI V 343.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52r. Bassa and her sons? Martyrdom, beheading. Name not inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 31 [unidentified], fig. 98).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Bassa and one of her sons. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 30, pl. 137; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Bassa and her two sons. Woman saint. Martyrs, holding crosses. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 8, pl. 110; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

---