The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 26

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Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia.

Husband and wife. Martyred with 23 companions at Nicomedia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 26, par. 1 (cols. 923-926).

BHG 27-29; BiblSS I 269-271, IX 762-5; DHGE I 608-10; Holweck 20, 729; LCI V 36-8, VIII 31.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 53r. Praying. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 32, fig. 100).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, pilaster. Adrian and Natalia?⁸⁶ Martyrdom, beheading. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 318, fig. T IX 16b; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 44 [not identified]).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Martyr and woman saint. Three-quarter figures. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, pp. 48-9, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).

⁸⁶ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 318.

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