The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for June 27

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Sampson the Xenodochos.

Priest. Physician. Founder of a hospital in Constantinople. 4th or 6th cen.

Synax.CP, June 27, par. 1 (cols. 773-6).

Simeon Metaphrastes, June 27.

BHG 1614z-1615d; BiblSS XI 636-8; Holweck 882; LCI VIII 309; ODB 1837.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 30r. Priest. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 46, fig. 5F6).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 40r. Priest, holding book. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 67, fig. 2A6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 45r. Holding book. Sampson stands behind a low wall. Two buildings. (Hutter, II, p. 27, fig. 84).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 31v. Priest, holding book. Wall and towers. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 139, fig. 4A10).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 47v. Death. Sampson''s body is placed on a bier. At the left, a bishop is blessing him; a group of deacons at the right hold candles. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 140, fig. 4A11).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 359, fig. 62, pls. 251, 254).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, center bay, arch soffit. Monk. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 27, fig. T V 4; Mijović, Menolog, p. 340, fig. 49, pl. 224; Petković, Dečani, p. 19, pl. 129.1).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Monk, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 281, fig. 7, pl. 99; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 79).

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