The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 5

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Sabas of Jerusalem.

Monk. Founder and abbot of the Monastery of St. Sabas in the Judean desert. 439-532.

Synax.CP, Dec. 5, par. 1 (cols. 281-2).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 5.

BHG 1608-1610; BiblSS XI 533-5; Holweck 876; LCI VIII 296-8; ODB 1823; ODCC 1216.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 19v. Monk, holding cross. (Hutter, II, p. 11, fig. 34).

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

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 225. Monk. Praying. Sabas stands with hands raised in prayer before the walled Lavra. Inside, a rotunda with dome surmounted by a cross. (Menologio, I, p. 61, II, fig. p. 225).

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

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, soffit. Monk, holding inscribed scroll. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 104, fig. T I 9; Mijović, Menolog, p. 328, fig. 47; Petković, Dečani, pl. CXII.1).

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