The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Mark of Arethusa and Cyril the Deacon.

Mark, bishop of Arethusa in Syria, and Cyril, deacon at Heliopolis in Phoenicia. Martyred under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, March 28, par. 1 (cols. 565-8); March 29, Synax. selecta (cols. 567-72).

BHG 2248-50; BiblSS III 1317, VIII 701; DHGE XII 1168; Fedalto 777; Holweck 256, 661; LCI VII 563.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 250. March 29. 1) Mark. Martyrdom, hanging. Torture, insects. Mark, wearing a loin cloth, hangs from a gallows. He is surrounded by insects. 2) Cyril. Martyrdom, liver torn out. Cyril, wearing a loin cloth, lies on the ground. One of the three executioners surround him tears out his liver. At the right, two more male saints, wearing loin cloths, lie on the ground, bleeding. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 55).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 33r. Mark. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 60).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. 1) Mark. Half-figure. Repainted. 2) Cyril. Deacon. Holding pyxis. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 196, fig. T VIII 30a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 16, pl. CXXIV.1).

SEE ALSO:
Hilarion of Pelecetes, March 27
Jonas and Barachisius of Persia, March 29

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