The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 21

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Timothy of Symbola.

Hermit on Mount Olympus in Bithynia. Miracle worker. 9th cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 21, par. 1 (col. 479).

BiblSS XII 492-3; Holweck 984.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 28r. Monk. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 51).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Monk. Three-quarter figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 62, pl. 244).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Timothy?²² Monk. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 173, fig. T III 27a).

²² Identification proposed by Babić et al, no. 173.

Leo of Catania.
Leo Thaumaturgus.

Bishop of Catania in Sicily. Mid 8th cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 21, par. 2 (cols. 479-80); Feb. 20, Synax. selecta (cols. 477-8).

BHG 981-981e; BiblSS VII 1223-5; Holweck 598; LCI VII 390-1.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 95. Feb. 20. Bishop, holding book. Tonsured. Leo stands under an arch. Name inscribed. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 19).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 416. Feb. 20. Bishop, holding book. Tonsured. Leo stands under an arch surmounted by a cross. (Menologio, I, pp. 112-3, II, fig. p. 416).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Feb. 20. Monk, holding closed scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62, pl. 244).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Feb. 20. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, pp. 276-277, fig. 13, pl. 71; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 105.2).

Eustathius of Antioch.

Bishop of Antioch, ca. 324-ca. 330.

SEE ALSO: June 5.

Synax.CP, Feb. 21, par. 3 (cols. 480-1).

BHG 644-644e; BiblSS V 296; DHGE XVI 13-23; Fedalto 682; Holweck 348; LCI VI 193; ODB 753; ODCC 483.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 103. Feb. 22. Bishop, holding book. Eustathius stands under a pointed arch. Name inscribed. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 21).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 62, pl. 244).

Agatho of Rome.

Pope, 678-681.

Synax.CP, Feb. 21, Synax. selecta (cols. 481-2).

BiblSS I 341-3; DHGE I 916-7; Holweck 30; LCI V 50; ODCC 24; ODP 77-8.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 417. Bishop, holding book. Agatho stands under a pointed arch. (Menologio, I, p. 113, II, fig. p. 417).

SEE ALSO: Archippus, Philemon and Appia of Colossae, February 20