The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 4

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Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

According to legend, seven young men who took refuge in a cave near Ephesus in Asia during the persecutions of Decius. They slept for about 190 years, awakening during the reign of Theodosius II.

SEE ALSO: October 22.

Synax.CP, Aug. 4, par. 2 (cols. 865-6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 50r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 30, fig. 94).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, south wall, pier. Asleep in cave. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 283, fig. 11; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 84).

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Eleutherius Cubicularius.
Eleutherius of Constantinople.

Chamberlin. Martyred at Tarsus in Bithynia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 4, par. 3 (cols. 866-8).

BHG 572-572e; BiblSS IV 1011-12; DHGE XV 147; Holweck 310; LCI VI 115.

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, window embrasure. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 311, fig. T IX 5b; Mijović, Menolog, p. 341, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 20).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 112; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

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Eudocia the Younger.
Eudocia of Persia.

Nun. Martyred in Persia under Shapur II.

Synax.CP, Aug. 4, Synax. selecta (cols. 867-8).

BiblSS V 144-5; DHGE XV 1336; Holweck 334.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Nun, holding cross. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 112; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

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