The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 29

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Massacre of the Innocents.

Synax.CP, Dec. 29, par. 1 (col. 353).

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

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 282v.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 281. (Menologio, I, p. 77, II, fig. p. 281).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 61, pl. 239).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, east wall. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 128, fig. T I 10; Mijović, Menolog, p. 332, fig. 47; Petković, pls. CXVI, CLXVII.2).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, east wall. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 9).

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Marcellus the Akoimete.
Marcellus of Apamaea.

Monk. Archimandrite of the Akoimete monastery in Constantinople. d. ca. 485.

Synax.CP, Dec. 29, par. 3 (cols. 353-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 29.

BHG 1027z-1028; BiblSS VIII 661-3; Holweck 651; LCI VII 490.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 196v. Monk. Very damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 99).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 282v. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 282. Monk. Hands raised. Building. (Menologio, I, p. 77, II, fig. p. 282).

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