The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 5

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Apollonaria of Egypt.

Virgin. Recluse in Egypt. Disguised monk, under the name Dorotheus. 5th cen.

Synax.CP, Jan. 5, par. 1 (cols. 369-72).

BHG 148; BiblSS II 251; Holweck 95.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Nun. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pl. 52).

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Gregory of Acritas.

Synax.CP, Jan. 5, par. 2 (cols. 372-4).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13).

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Micah.

Prophet.

SEE ALSO: April 22, August 14.

Synax.CP, Jan. 5, Synax. selecta (cols. 369-70).

BHG 1281-1281c; BiblSS IX 402-9; LCI III 254-5, VIII 16-7; ODCC 912.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 36r. 1) Martyrdom, thrown into abyss. Prophet. Micah is led toward the abyss by an executioner. 2) Burial. Two men place the body of Micah, wrapped in grave clothes, in a sarcophagus. Behind, a building within a wall. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 47, fig. 10).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 298. 1) Martyrdom, thrown into abyss. Prophet. Micah is led toward the abyss by an executioner. 2) Burial. Two men place the body of Micah, wrapped in grave clothes, in a sarcophagus. Behind, a building within a wall. (Menologio, I, p. 81, II, fig. p. 298; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 47, fig. 11).

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Paul of Thebes.
Paul the Hermit.

The first Christian hermit, in the Egyptian desert. 4th cen.

SEE ALSO: January 15.

Synax.CP, Jan. 5, Synax. selecta (cols. 371-372).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 5.

BHG 1466-1470; BiblSS X 269-80; Holweck 778; LCI VIII 149-51; ODCC 1053; ODS 341.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 28r. Monk. Death. Anthony the Great, wearing hooded monk''s habit, kneels in proskynesis at the feet of the body of Paul of Thebes, lying in front of a cave. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 46, figs. 1, 8)

Mount Sinai, gr. 512, fol. 2v. Monk, wearing hood. Meeting Anthony the Great. Paul turns toward Anthony, a monk, both gesturing. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 22, figs. 1B6-7; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 71, fig. 198; colorpl. 15).

Vatican, gr. 817, fol. 2v. Monk, wearing hood. Holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 32, fig. 1C2).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 287r. Jan. 4. Monk, holding open scroll.

SEE ALSO: Theopemptus and Theonas of Nicomedia, January 4

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