The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Procopius of Caesarea.

Soldier. Megalomartyr. Martyred at Caesarea in Palestine under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, July 8, par. 1 (cols. 805-808).

Simeon Metaphrastes, July 8.

BHG 1576-1582c; BiblSS X 1159-66; Holweck 832-3; LCI VIII 229-30.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 53v. Soldier. Wearing sword, holding a spear and shield. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 46, fig. 5F8).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 72v. Soldier, holding a shield. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 68, fig. 2A8-2A9).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 46v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, pp. 27-8, fig. 87).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 63r. Martyr, holding cross. Wall and towers. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 140, fig. 4B1).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 86v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 140, fig. 4B2).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, west bay. Martyrdom, beheading. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 281, fig. T IX 3d; Mijović, Menolog, p. 340, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 19).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, east arch, soffit. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 281, fig. 15, pl. 102; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).

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