The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for February 4

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Isidore of Pelusium.

Priest. Monk in a monastery near Pelusium in Egypt. Writer. ca. 360-431/451.

Synax.CP, Feb. 4, par. 1 (cols. 441-3).

BHG 2209; BiblSS VII 968-71; Holweck 513; LCI VII 13; ODB 1016.

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

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 371. Monk. Praying. Isidore stands, hands raised in prayer toward an arc of Heaven from which rays descend. At right, a basilican church. At left, behind a hill, a building surmounted by a statue of a nude male divinity holding a spear and a globe. (Menologio, I, p. 101, II, fig. p. 371; Ševčenko, I., "Illuminators of the Menologium of Basil II," fig. 18).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62, pl. 242).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll.¹⁶ (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 156, fig. T VIII 17b).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, east wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 274, fig. 9, pl. 66; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 111.1).

¹⁶ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 156. Mijović, Menolog, p. 333, and Petković, Dečani, p. 15, identify this figure as Simeon Theodochus.

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Papias, Diodorus and Claudianus of Perge.

Shepherds. Brothers. Martyred at Attalia in Pamphylia under Decius.

Synax.CP, Feb. 4, par. 2 (col. 443).

BHG 2331-2332; BiblSS X 316-7; Holweck 770; LCI VIII 117.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 12. Martyrdom, beheading. Diodorus is about to be beheaded. Claudianus'' body and severed head lies on the ground. Papias, bound, stands waiting. Names inscribed. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 4).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 369. Martyrdom, beheading. Diodorus is about to be beheaded. Claudianus'' body and severed head lies on the ground. Papias, bound, stands waiting. (Menologio, I, pp. 100-1, II, fig. p. 369).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, east wall. Papias and Diodorus. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 274, fig. 9, pls. 66, 84; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 111.1).

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Claudius, Monk.

Monk. Unknown time and place.

Synax.CP, Feb. 4, Synax. selecta (cols. 441-2).

BiblSS IV 17; Holweck 216.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 370. Monk. Praying. Claudius is kneeling, his hands raised in prayer toward the Hand of God emerging from a starry arc of Heaven. At right, a masonry fountain. The name is given, but no text accompanies the miniature. (Menologio, I, p. 101, II, p. 370).

SEE ALSO: Abraham the Persian, February 5

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