The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 2

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Christ, Presentation.

Synax.CP, Feb. 2, par. 1 (cols. 439-40).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 8. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 6, fig. 2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 27v. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 50).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 365. (Menologio, I, p. 99, II, fig. p. 365).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62, pl. 247).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 154, fig. T VIII 16; Mijović, Menolog, p. 333, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, pp. 14-15, pl. LXXVII.1).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, pier. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 7, pl. 65).

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Perpetua and Felicitas of Carthage.

Perpetua, a married woman. Martyred with Felicitas and other companions in Carthage under Septimius Severus.

Perpetua, SEE ALSO: March 4.

Synax.CP, Feb. 2, par. 2 (col. 440).

BHG 1482; BiblSS X 493-501; Holweck 368, 790; LCI VIII 155-6; ODCC 1064-5.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 366. Martyrdom, stabbing with knife. Perpetua lies bleeding from a stab wound in her chest. Two executioners are thrusting knives into the throats of Felicitas and a male co-martyr. Other male and female co-martyrs have fallen to the ground, bleeding from their wounds. (Menologio, I, pp. 99-100, II, fig. p. 366).

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