The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 26

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Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates of Nicomedia.

Hermolaus, a priest, who was responsible for the conversion of Panteleimon. He was martyred with his brothers at Nicomedia under Maximian.

SEE ALSO: August 23.

Synax.CP, July 26, par. 1 (col. 843).

BHG 2173; BiblSS V 65-7; Holweck 478; LCI VI 511-2.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 92).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall, window embrasure. Hermolaus and companions?⁷⁴ Group of martyrs. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 303, fig. T III 45b; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Hermolaus and Hermocrates?.⁷⁵ Martyrs, holding crosses. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

⁷⁴ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 303.

⁷⁵ The second martyr is identified by Mijović and Todić as Moratius, and by Živković as Mocratius.

Ignatius Steironites.

Monk at Steiria in Attica at an unknown time.

Synax.CP, July 26, par. 4 (col. 845).

BiblSS VII 707; Holweck 501.

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

Michael the Archangel.

SEE ALSO: September 6.

Synax.CP, July 26, par. 9 (col. 846).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49r. Wearing loros. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 29 [unidentified], fig. 92).

Simeon Stylites the Elder.

SEE ALSO: September 1.

Synax.CP, July 26, Synax. selecta (cols. 843-4).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall, window embrasure. Simeon.⁷⁶ Partial inscription of name. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 302, fig. T III 45b; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).