The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 2

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Habakkuk.

Prophet.

Synax.CP, Dec. 2, par. 1 (cols. 271-3).

BHG 741-741c; BiblSS I 2-11; Holweck 462-3; LCI II 205, VI 469; ODCC 611.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 19v. Prophet. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 11, fig. 34).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 270r. Prophet, holding open scroll.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 219. Prophet, holding closed scroll. Beardless. Wall and buildings. (Menologio, I, p. 60, II, fig. p. 219).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Habakkuk? Prophet. Damaged. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 354, fig. 61, pl. 239).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Prophet, holding inscribed scroll. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 101, fig. T IV 36; Mijović, Menolog, p. 328, fig. 42, pl. 209).

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Abibus of Edessa.

Deacon, martyred at Edessa under Licinius, and buried with Gurias and Samonas.

SEE ALSO: November 15.

Synax.CP, Dec. 2, Synax. selecta (cols. 271-2).

BHG 731-740m; BiblSS VII 539-43; Holweck 459; LCI VI 465-6.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 220. Deacon. Praying. Martyrdom, burning. Abibus stands in a bonfire stoked by two executioners. He prays toward a Hand of God within an arc of Heaven. (Menologio, I, p. 60, II, fig. p. 220).

SEE ALSO:
John of Damascus, December 4
Philaretus Eleemosynary, December 1

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