The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 19

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Macarius the Great and Macarius of Rome.

Macarius the Great (Macarius the Elder; Macarius of Egypt). Hermit. Abbot. Founder of a monastery in Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun), Egypt. ca. 300-ca. 390

Synax.CP, Jan. 19, par. 1 (cols. 401-2).

BHG 999g-999t; BiblSS VIII 425-9; Holweck 631; LCI VII 474-6; ODB 1271; ODCC 853-4.

Macarius of Rome. Legendary hermit in Mesopotamia.

Not in Synax.CP for Jan. 19 (see Oct. 23, Synax. selecta, cols. 160-161).

BHG 1004-1005p; BiblSS VIII 431-2; Holweck 633; LCI VII 479-80; ODB 1270-1.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 25v. Macarius the Great. Monk. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 15, fig. 46).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 295r. Macarius the Great. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 334. Monks. Macarius of Rome holds a closed scroll; Macarius the Great holds a cross. Arcade; knotted column. (Menologio, I, p. 90, II, fig. p. 334).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Macarius the Great.¹¹ Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 13, pl. 55).

¹¹ Not identified by Mijović, Menolog.

Euphrasia of Nicomedia.

Virgin. Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Jan. 19, par. 3 (col. 404).

BiblSS V 168-9; Holweck 340; LCI VI 186.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 333. Martyrdom, beheading. Small church. Column on mountain. (Menologio, I, p. 90, II, fig. p. 333).

Theodotus of Cyrenia.

Bishop of Cyrenia in Cyprus. Confessor under Licinius.

SEE ALSO: March 2.

Synax.CP, Jan. 19, par. 4 (col. 404).

BHG 2434-2438; BiblSS XII 307-8; Fedalto 880; Holweck 966; LCI VIII 456.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 155v. Bishop, holding book. Arcade.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 332. Bishop, holding book. Arcade. Two candelabrum with lighted candles. (Menologio, I, p. 90, II, fig. p. 332).

Gregory of Nazianzus. Translation of Relics.
Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory the Theologian.

Bishop of Constantinople and Nazianzus in Cappadocia. 329-389.

SEE ALSO: January 25.

Synax.CP, Jan. 19, Synax. selecta (cols. 401-406).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Translation of Relics.¹² (Mijović, Menolog, p. 272, fig. 13, pl. 55; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 108.2).

¹² Mijović, Menolog, p. 272, lists this scene under Jan. 25.