The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 9

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Pancratius of Taormina.

Bishop of Taormina in Sicily. Disciple of Peter the Apostle. Martyr. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: February 9.

Synax.CP, July 9, par. 1 (cols. 807-9).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 46v. Bishop. Pancratius and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 27, fig. 87).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, west bay. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 282, fig. T IX 3e; Mijović, Menolog, p. 340, fig. 44; Petković, Dečani, p. 19).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, east arch, soffit. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 283, fig. 15, pl. 102; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).

Patermuthius, Copres and Alexander of Egypt.

Patermuthius and Copres, monks in Egypt. Martyred with a soldier, Alexander, under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, July 9, Synax. selecta (cols. 807-810).

BHG 1429; BiblSS X 376-8; DHGE XIII 802; Holweck 774; LCI V 520.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, east arch, soffit. Two monks; a third halo is visible behind them. One monk holds a scroll. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 283, fig. 15, pl. 102; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).

Cyril of Gortyna.

Bishop of Gortyna, Crete. Martyred under Maximian.

SEE ALSO: September 5, June 14.