The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 18

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Cyril of Jerusalem.

Bishop of Jerusalem, 348-386 (with interruptions).

SEE ALSO: March 11.

Synax.CP, March 18, par. 1 (cols. 545-6); March 21, Synax. selecta (cols. 551-2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 32r. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 18, fig. 58).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. March 21. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 33, pl. 150).

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Trophimus and Eucarpius of Nicomedia.

Soldiers. Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, March 18, Synax. selecta (cols. 545-6).

BHG 2464-2465; BiblSS XII 673-4; Holweck 989-90.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 234. March 23. Martyrdom, burning. Trophimus and Eucarpius stand, hands raised, in a bonfire. An executioner stokes the flames. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 49).

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Paul the Simple.

Hermit in the Thebaid. Disciple of Anthony the Great. 4th cen.

SEE ALSO: October 5.

Not in Synax.CP for March 18; cf. March 7, Synax. selecta (cols. 517-8).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 216. Monk. Praying. Paul stands with his hands raised in prayer toward rays descending from an arc of Heaven. Building. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, fig. 44).

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