The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 18

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Sebastian of Rome.

Soldier. Martyred with companions at Rome under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 18, par. 1 (cols. 321-2).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 19.

BHG 1619z-1620; BiblSS XI 776-801; Holweck 890; LCI VIII 318-24; ODCC 1254; ODS 380-1.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 72r. Dec. 19. Sebastian and companions. Torture, beating; suspension. Martyrdom, beheading. Sebastian is being beaten with clubs. A co-martyr is suspended upside-down from a tree. Another co-martyr is being beaten. Others are about to be beheaded. Very damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 98, fig. 3B5).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21v. Sebastian and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 12, fig. 38).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 272r. Sebastian and companions. Three martyrs, holding crosses.

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Sebastian and companions? Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 354, fig. 61, pl. 238).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, center bay, vault. Sebastian, Mark, Castor and companions. Three martyrs holding crosses with double traverses, stand at the head of a group of martyrs. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 117, fig. T V 6; Mijović, Menolog, p. 330, fig. 49; Petković, pl. CXIV).

Eubiotus and Philetairus of Nicomedia.

Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Diocletian.

Philetairus, SEE ALSO: May 19.

Synax.CP, Dec. 18, par. 2 (cols. 322-3).

BHG 1515-1515a; BiblSS V 701-2; Holweck 333, 809-10.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 272r. Two martyrs, holding crosses. With Athenodorus; see below, Dec. 18 (4).

Florus of Amisus.

Court official. Monk. Bishop of Amisus in Helenopontus. 6th-7th cen.

Synax.CP, Dec. 18, par. 3 (col. 324).

BiblSS V 945; Fedalto 79; Holweck 392; LCI VI 255.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21v. Florus? Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 12 [unidentified], fig. 38).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 254. Bishop, holding book. Building. (Menologio, I, p. 69, II, fig. p. 254).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, center bay, vault. Bishop, holding book. Wearing polystavrion. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 117, fig. T V 6; Mijović, Menolog, p. 330, fig. 49; Petković, pl. CXIV).

Athenodorus the Saint.