The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 25

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Tarasius of Constantinople.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 784-806.

Synax.CP, Feb. 25, par. 1 (cols. 487-8).

BHG 1698-1698c; BiblSS XII 127-31; Fedalto 6; Holweck 945; LCI VIII 420; Nicol 119; ODB 2011; ODCC 1340.

Athens, Benaki Museum, fol. 5v.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 113. Bishop. Praying. Tarasius raises his hands in prayer. Monastery with a centralized church with dome surmounted by a cross. Name inscribed. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 24).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 28v. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 17, fig. 52).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 423. Bishop. Praying. Tarasius raises his hands in prayer. Monastery entered through a draped portal. Inside, a basilican church with cross on gable and a centralized church with dome surmounted by a cross. (Menologio, I, pp. 114-5, II, fig. p. 423).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 62, pl. 243).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 8, pl. 75).

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Alexander of Drizipara.

Martyred at Drizipara in Thrace under Maximian.

SEE ALSO: May 13.

Synax.CP, Feb. 25, par. 2 (cols. 488-9).

BHG 48-49; BiblSS I 778-80; Holweck 45; LCI V 82.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 422. Martyrdom, beheading. Wearing loin cloth. (Menologio, I, p. 114, II, fig. p. 422).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Martyr, holding cross. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 8, pl. 75).

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Reginus of Scopelus.

Bishop of Scopelus Island in the Aegean Sea. Martyred under the Arians between 350-361 or under Julian the Apostate in 362.

Synax.CP, Feb. 25, par. 4 (col. 490); Feb. 24, Synax. selecta (cols. 487-8).

BiblSS XI 79-80; Fedalto 470; Holweck 855; LCI VIII 258.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 421. Bishop. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 114, II, fig. p. 421).

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Marcellus of Apamea.

From Cyprus. Bishop of Apamea in Syria. Martyr. Late 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 25, par. 5 (col. 490).

BHG 1026-1027b; BiblSS VIII 663-4; Fedalto 775; Holweck 649.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 8, pl. 75).

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Theodore Salus.

Holy fool. Time and place unknown.

Synax.CP, Feb. 25, par. 7 (col. 490).

BiblSS XII 282-3; Holweck 959.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 8, pl. 75).

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