The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 4

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Barbara of Nicomedia.

Virgin. Martyred under Maximus the Thracian or Maximian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 4, par. 1 (cols. 277-8).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 4.

BHG 213-218q; BiblSS II 760-7; Holweck 131; LCI V 304-11; ODB 252; ODCC 131; ODS 31.

Florence, Laurenziana, Plut. XI:10, fol. 2r. Woman saint. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 39, figs. 1D4-5).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 19v. Woman saint. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 11, fig. 34).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 270r. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 224. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 61, II, fig. p. 224).

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

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, east wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 103, fig. T I 7; Mijović, Menolog, p. 328, fig. 47).

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John of Damascus.
John Damascene.

Monk. Priest. Hymnographer. ca. 675-ca. 749 or ca. 753-4.

SEE ALSO: November 29.

Synax.CP, Dec. 4, par. 2 (cols. 278-9).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 270v. Monk, holding cross. (Weitzmann, "Five Martyrs of Sebaste," fig. 6).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 354, fig. 61, pl. 238).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Dec. 2. Monk, wearing turban. 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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