The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 21

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Maximus the Confessor.
Maximus the Theologian.

Monk in Constantinople. Theologian. Confessor. ca. 580-662.

SEE ALSO: August 13 (Translation of relics).

Synax.CP, Jan. 21, par. 1 (cols. 409-10).

BHG 1231-1236d; BiblSS IX 41-7; Holweck 695; LCI VII 620-1; ODB 1323-4; ODCC 895.

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

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 295r. Monk, holding cross.

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Maximus?¹⁴ Martyrdom. Fragmentary scene. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 142, fig. T III 23; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 8, pl. 60).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 33, pl. 139).

¹⁴ Inscription of name destroyed. Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 142.

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Neophytus of Nicaea.

Hermit on Mount Olympus. Martyred at Nicaea under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Jan. 21, par. 2 (cols. 410-1).

BHG 1325y-1326d; BiblSS IX 806-7; Holweck 732; LCI VIII 34.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 200r. Martyrdom, stabbing with sword. Beardless. Building.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 339. Martyrdom, stabbing with sword. Beardless. Building surmounted by column. (Menologio, I, pp. 91-2, II, fig. p. 339).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Martyr. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 8, pl. 60).

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Zosimus of Syracuse.

Monk. Abbot of the Monastery of Santa Lucia in Syracuse. Bishop of Syracuse, 648-662.

Synax.CP, Jan. 21, par. 3 (cols. 411-2).

BiblSS XII 1503; Holweck 1051; LCI VIII 643-4.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 340. Bishop, holding book. Standing under pointed arch surmounted by cross with double traverse. (Menologio, I, p. 92, II, fig. p. 340).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Monk. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 273, fig. 8, pl. 60).

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