The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 23

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Lupus of Thessalonica.
Luppus of Thessalonica.

Soldier. Servant of Demetrius of Thessalonica. Martyred under Maximian.

SEE ALSO: October 26.

Synax.CP, Aug. 23, par. 1 (col. 917).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 99).

Cozia. East wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 361,⁸³ fig. 61, pl. 258).

⁸³ Mijović, Menolog, p. 361, identifies the figure as Lucius of Cyrene, but the inscription he transcribes reads Lupus.

Irenaeus of Sirmium.

Bishop of Sirmium. Martyred under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: March 26.

Synax.CP, Aug. 23, par. 2 (col. 917).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, pp. 48-9, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).

Callinicus I of Constantinople.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 693-705.

Synax.CP, Aug. 23, par. 4 (cols. 917-20).

BHG 288-289; BiblSS III 673-5; DHGE XI 415; Fedalto 5; Holweck 183; Nicol 68.

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west wall 14).

Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates of Nicomedia.

Hermolaus, a priest, who was responsible for the conversion of Panteleimon. He was martyred with his brothers at Nicomedia under Maximian.

SEE ALSO: July 26.

Not in Syn.CP for Aug. 23.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates. Martyrdom, drowning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 8, pl. 110; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

SEE ALSO: Tition of Claudiopolis, August 24