The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 26

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Joseph the Carpenter.

Synax.CP, Dec. 26, par. 2 (col. 344); Dec. 25, Synax. selecta (cols. 343-4).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 22v. Half-figure.¹²¹ (Hutter, II, p. 13, fig. 40).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 273. Joseph, Dream. Dec. 25. (Menologio, I, pp. 74-5, II, fig. p. 274).

¹²¹ Hutter, p. 13, identified this figure, who is inscribed "Joseph the Just," as Joseph Barsabas, but the Synax.CP, par. 2, calls the saint of Dec. 26 "Joseph the Betrothed."

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Euthymius of Sardis.

Bishop of Sardis in Lydia, before 787-after 814. Confessor and martyr during Iconoclasm under Leo V and Theophilus. d. 831.

Synax.CP, Dec. 26, par. 3 (col. 345).

BHG 2145-2146; BiblSS V 334-5; Fedalto 179; Holweck 351; ODB 756.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 22v. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. Inscribed as "the one from Sardis." (Hutter, II, p. 13 [unidentified], fig. 40).

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Christ, Flight into Egypt.

Synax.CP, Dec. 26, Synax. selecta (cols. 345-6).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 274. (Menologio, I, p. 75, II, fig. p. 274).

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

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, west bay, vault. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 125, fig. T VIII 24; Mijović, Menolog, p. 332, fig. 43; Petković, pl. CXV).

SEE ALSO: Theodore and Theophanes Graptoi, December 28

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