The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 22

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Martyrs of the Eugenios Gate.

Unknown martyrs whose relics were found near the Eugenios Gate at Constantinople under Emperor Arcadius.

Synax.CP, Feb. 22, par. 1 (col. 483).

Holweck 670.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 28r. The relics of the martyrs of the Eugenios Gate are named in the inscription, but not represented. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 51).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Invention of relics. Three men look into an open sarcophagus in which there are three bodies. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 62, pl. 246).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Invention of relics.²³ A group of bishops look into a sarcophagus. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 174, fig. T III 27b).

²³ Identification proposed by Babić et al, no. 174.

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Athanasius the Confessor.
Athanasius of Bithynia; Athanasius of Pauloperus.

Monk at the Pauloperus monastery in Bithynia. Confessor during the Iconoclast controversy under Leo the Armenian. d. 826.

Synax.CP, Feb. 22, par. 2 (col. 483).

BiblSS II 549; Holweck 113.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 418. Monk. Praying. Athanasius kneels with hands raised in prayer toward the Hand of God emerging from an arc of Heaven. Within a wall, a centralized church with dome surmounted by a cross. The name is given, but no text accompanies the miniature. (Menologio, I, p. 113, II, fig. p. 418).

SEE ALSO: Eustathius of Antioch, February 21

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