The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 22

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Basil of Ancyra.

Priest at Ancyra in Galatia. Martyred under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, March 22, par. 1 (cols. 551-556).

BHG 242-243; DHGE VI 1074; Holweck 139; LCI V 337.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 32v. Martyr, holding cross and book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 59).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Standing figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 190, fig. T VIII 23a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 16).

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Callinica and Basilissa of Galatia.

Virgins. Martyred in Galatia under Decius. Some texts refer to Callinicus instead of Callinica.

Synax.CP, March 22, par. 2 (col. 556).

BiblSS III 677; Holweck 183.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 32v. Callinica and Basilissa? Two women saints. Half-figures. Not inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 19 [unidentified], fig. 59).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 33, pl. 151).

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Calliopius of Pompeiopolis.

Son of a senator at Perge in Pamphylia. Martyred at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia under Diocletian.

Not in Synax.CP for March 22; cf. Synax.CP, April 7, par. 2 (cols. 590-2).

BHG 290-290e; BiblSS III 678-9; Holweck 183; LCI V 467.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 231. Martyrdom, crucifixion. Calliopius, wearing a loin cloth, is suspended upside-down on a cross with a suppedaneum. Wall, and buildings. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 48).

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