The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 22

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Anastasia the Younger; Chrysogonus of Aquileia; Agape, Chionia and Irene of Thessalonica; Theodota of Nicaea and her Three Sons.

Synax.CP, Dec. 22, par. 1 (cols. 333-6).

Anastasia the Younger (Anastasia of Sirmium). Widow. Martyred at Sirmium or Palmaria, ca. 304.

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 22.

BHG 81-83b; BiblSS I 1041-9; DHGE II 1485; Holweck 65-6; LCI V 132-3; ODCC 49; ODS 18.

Chrysogonus of Aquileia. Martyred at Rome under Diocletian.

BHG 81-83b, 2067; BiblSS IV 306-8; Holweck 212; LCI V 511-2.

Agape, Chionia and Irene of Thessalonica. Virgins. Sisters from Aquileia. Martyred at Thessalonica under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: April 16.

BHG 34; BiblSS I 303-4; DHGE I 876, XII 743; Holweck 27, 207, 508; LCI V 42.

Theodota of Nicaea and her Three Sons. Martyred at Nicaea under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: July 29.

BHG 1781; BiblSS XII 303-5; Holweck 966; LCI VIII 455.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 105v. Anastasia. Nun. Martyrdom, burning. Anastasia, arms extended with wrists tied to two posts, stands in a bonfire. Two executioners stoke the fire. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 98, fig. 3B7).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 22r. Anastasia. Death? Anastasia lies in a rigid horizontal position, arms outstretched. Inscribed Anastasia the Poisoncurer. (Hutter, II, p. 12, fig. 39).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 272r. Anastasia. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 264. Anastasia and a female companion. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, pp. 71-2, II, fig. p. 264).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 266. Chrysogonus. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 72, II, fig. p. 266).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 267. Agape, Chionia and Irene. Martyrdom, burning in furnace; beheading. Agape and Chionia, hands raised, stand in a blazing furnace. Irene is about to be beheaded. (Menologio, I, p. 72, II, fig. p. 267).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 268. Theodota and two of her sons. Martyrdom, burning. Theodota, orant, flanked by two youths, stand in a bonfire. Building. (Menologio, I, pp. 72-3, II, fig. p. 268).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, center bay, vault. Anastasia. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 121, fig. T VI 5; Mijović, Menolog, p. 332, fig. 52, pl. 223; Petković, pl. CXIV).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, north wall. Anastasia. Martyrdom, burning?¹¹⁹ Half-figure, in flames. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 12).

¹¹⁹ Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, identifies Anastasia as part of a group in the upper zone of the composition who are being beheaded.

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Capiton of Cherson.

Bishop of Cherson. 4th cen.

SEE ALSO: March 7.

Synax.CP, Dec. 22, par. 2 (cols. 336-8).

BHG 265z-267; BiblSS II 949; DHGE VI 1074; Fedalto 392; LCI VII 272-3.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 265. Bishop, holding book. Building. (Menologio, I, p. 72, II, fig. p. 265).

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