The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 5

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Eusignius of Antioch.

Soldier. Martyred at Antioch under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, Aug. 5, par. 1 (cols. 867-70).

BHG 638-640e; BiblSS V 278-9; DHGE XVI 1-2; Holweck 347; LCI VI 192.

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

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

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, window embrasure. Martyrdom, beheading. inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 312, fig. T IX 5c; Mijović, Menolog, p. 341, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 20).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Eusignius and two companions. Martyrs, holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 25; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west wall 14 [unidentified]).

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