The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 12

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Theophanes the Confessor.
Theophanes Chronographus.

Monk. Abbot of the Monastery of Megas Agros on the mountain of Sigriane in Bithynia. Confessor during the Iconoclast controversy under Leo V. Completed the Chronographia of George Syncellus. d. 817 or 818.

Synax.CP, March 12, par. 1 (cols. 529-31).

BHG 1787z-1892e; BiblSS XII 322-5; Holweck 970; LCI VIII 461.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 189. Monk. Orant. Buildings. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 38).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 31r. Monk, holding cross. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 18, fig. 56).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 187, fig. T VIII 13; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43, pl. 214; Petković, Dečani, p. 16, pl. CXXII.1).

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, dome. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 35, pls. 145, 147, 156).

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Gregory I the Great.
Gregory Dialogos.

Pope, 590-604.

Synax.CP, March 12, par. 2 (cols. 531-2).

BHG 720-721f; BiblSS VII 222-87; DHGE XXXI 1387-1420; Holweck 446-7; LCI VI 432-41; ODB 875-6; ODCC 594-5; ODP 65-8; ODS 189-91.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 200. March 14. Bishop, holding book. Tonsured. Gregory stands before an arcade decorated with four reliefs of nude youths holding spears and globes. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 40).

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Sabinus of Hermopolis.

Martyred at Hermopolis in Egypt under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, March 12, par. 3 (cols. 532-4); March 16, Synax. selecta (cols. 539-44).

BHG 1612-1612c; BiblSS XI 555-7; Holweck 878; LCI VIII 303.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 186. March 11. Martyrdom, drowning. Sabinus, wearing loin cloth, a stone tied around his neck, is thrown into the river by an executioner. On the shore, a building. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 37).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 31v. March 16. Martyr, holding cross. (Hutter, II, p. 18, fig. 57).

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, south wall. Martyrdom, drowning. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

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