The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for June 2

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Nicephorus I of Constantinople.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 806-815. d. 828.

SEE ALSO: March 13.

Synax.CP, June 2, par. 1 (cols. 723-6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 42r. Bishop, holding book. With three other bishops. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 25, fig. 78).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 359, fig. 62, pl. 248).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, center bay, vault. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 247, fig. T V 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 339, fig. 49; Petković, Dečani, p. 18, pl. CXXVII).

Gračanica. Narthex, northwest tower, dome, drum. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 301, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 106; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II northwest dome 4).

Treskevac. Narthex, east wall. Nicephorus? Bishop, holding book. Inscription not preserved. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 313, fig. 38, pl. 163).

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Erasmus of Formiae.
Erasmus of Gaeta.

Bishop. According to legend, bishop of Antioch, then a hermit on Mount Lebanon. Transported by an angel to Illyricum and finally to Formiae in Campania. Martyred under Diocletian. Relics translated to Gaeta in 842.

Synax.CP, June 2, par. 7 (col. 726).

BHG 602; BiblSS IV 1288-93; DHGE XV 666-7; Holweck 826; LCI VI 156-8; ODS 143.

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, center bay, vault. June 1. Monk, holding scroll. Three-quarter figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 246, fig. T V 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 339, fig. 49; Petković, Dečani, p. 18, pl. CXXVII).

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