The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 20

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Photina and Cyriaca of Samaria.

Photina, the Samaritan woman who spoke to Christ at Jacob's well. Martyred with companions, including her sons Joseph and Victor and her sister Cyriaca at Carthage under Nero.

SEE ALSO: February 26.

Synax.CP, March 20, par. 2 (cols. 549-52).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 225. 1) Cyriaca. Torture, suspension. Cyriaca hangs upside-down, suspended by ropes tied around her ankles from the branches of two trees. 2) Companions of Photina and Cyriaca. Martyrdom, beheading. 3) Photina. In prison. Photina is seated within polygonal prison walls. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 46).

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Gerasimus of Jordan.

Hermit. Founder of a monastery near the Jordan River in Palestine. d. 475.

SEE ALSO: March 4.

Synax.CP, March 20, Synax. selecta (cols. 549-552).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 33, pl. 150).

SEE ALSO: Monks of St. Sabas, March 19

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