The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 2

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Translation of relic of mantle of the Virgin Mary.

Synax.CP, July 2, par. 1 (cols. 793-4).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 46r. Translation of relic. Two deacons, one swinging a censer, approach a reliquary within a niche framed by columns in the wall of an octagonal building (Soros chapel of the Church of the Blachernae, Constantinople). Behind, a domed building. (Hutter, II, p. 27, fig. 86).

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Juvenal of Jerusalem.

Patriarch of Jerusalem, 422-458 (with interruptions).

Synax.CP, July 2, par. 2 (col. 794).

BiblSS VI 1067-9; Fedalto 1001; Holweck 582; ODB 1086; ODCC 771.

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Juvenal?⁶⁴ Bishop. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 276, fig. T III 42c; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

Gračanica. Narthex, northwest tower, north wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 106; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II northwest dome 6).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, pier. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 7 [not identified]; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 82).

SEE ALSO: Peter the Patrician, July 1

⁶⁴ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 276.

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