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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 24

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Bartholomew the Apostle. Translation of Relics.
Nathanael of Cana

Apostle. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: June 11.

Synax.CP, Aug. 24, par. 1 (col. 919); April 25, Synax. selecta (cols. 921-4).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52v. Aug. 25. Translation of relics. A man carries a sarcophagus on his shoulders into a basilican church. (Hutter, II, p. 32, fig. 99).

Cozia. East wall. Aug. 25. Translation of relics. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 361, fig. 61, pl. 258).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, center bay. Translation of relics.⁸⁴ Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 316, fig. T IX 14g; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 44 [not identified]).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Aug. 25. Bartholomew. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, p. 49, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).

⁸⁴ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 316.

Tation of Claudiopolis.
Tition of Claudiopolis; Tatianus of Claudiopolis.

Martyred at Claudiopolis in Honorias under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 24, par. 2 (col. 919).

BHG 1850; BiblSS XII 161-3; Holweck 946.

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Aug. 23. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west wall 14).

Severus and Memnon of Thrace; Timothy of Thrace.

Severus and Memnon, martyred with 38 companions, including Timothy, in Philippopolis in Thrace under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 24, par. 3 (cols. 919-22); cf. Aug. 20, Synax. selecta (cols. 909-12).

BHG 2399; BiblSS XI 1005-7; Holweck 907, 985.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Group of martyrs, holding crosses. Name of Timothy inscribed. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 8, pl. 110; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

George Limniota.

Hermit on Mount Olympus in Bithynia. Confessor during Iconoclasm under Leo the Isaurian. d. 716.

Synax.CP, Aug. 24, par. 4 (col. 922).

BHG 692; BiblSS VI 537-8; DHGE XX 632; Holweck 424.

Eutyches of Sebaste.

Disciple of John the Evangelist. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: May 30.

Synax.CP, Aug. 24, Synax. selecta (cols. 919-922).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 52v. Bishop. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 99).

Cozia. East wall. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 361, fig. 61, pl. 258).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Monk, holding scroll. Three-quarter figure. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, p. 49, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).

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