The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 26

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Gabriel the Archangel, Synaxis.

Synax.CP, March 26, par. 1 (col. 559).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 33r. Gabriel the Archangel, holding a staff and globe. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 60).

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, south wall. Group of archangels, holding globes. Half-figures. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Martyrs Twenty-Six of Gothia.

Synax.CP, March 26, par. 2 (cols. 559-60).

Holweck 443.

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, west wall. Martyrdom, burning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 34, pl. 154).

Manuel and Theodosius, Martyrs.

Martyred with companions at an unknown place under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, March 26, par. 3 (cols. 560-1); March 27, Synax. selecta (cols. 563-4).

Holweck 647.

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, west wall. March 27. Martyrdom, beheading. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Irenaeus of Sirmium.

Bishop of Sirmium. Martyred under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: August 23.

Not in Synax.CP for March 26; cf. Synax.CP, Aug. 23, par. 2 (col. 917).

BHG 948-951b; BiblSS VII 899-900; Holweck 507.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 242. Martyrdom, beheading. Body thrown into river. An executioner is casting Irenaeus' decapitated body, wearing a loin cloth, into the river, where his head is already floating. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 52).