The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 27

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Poemen of Egypt.
Poemen of Scete; Poimon of Scete.

Hermit in Scete Desert in Egypt. 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Aug. 27, par. 1 (cols. 927-8).

BHG 1553z-1555g; BiblSS X 79-80; Holweck 821; LCI VIII 218.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 53r. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 32, fig. 100).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, pilaster. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 319, fig. T IX 16c; Mijović, Menolog, p. 341, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 20).

Treskevac. Narthex, north tower, west wall. Poemen? Monk, holding scroll. Three-quarter figure. Inscription not preserved. (Gligorijevic-Maksimovic, p. 49, fig. 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 315 [unidentified], fig. 39, pl. 165).

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