The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 9

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Martyrs Forty of Sebaste.

Synax.CP, March 9, par. 1 (cols. 521-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, March 9.

Messina, San Salvatore 27, fol. 190v. Martyrs, holding crosses. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 77, figs. 2D2-2D3).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 179. Martyrdom, freezing. Forty martyrs, wearing loin cloths, stand huddled together in icy water. Jewelled crowns of martyrdom are suspended above their heads. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 36).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 31r. (Hutter, II, p. 18, fig. 56).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, freezing. Forty martyrs, wearing loin cloths, stand huddled together in icy water. Above, a half-figure of Christ appears, surrounded by jewelled crowns of martyrdom, (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 184, fig. T VIII 10; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43, pl. 213; Petković, Dečani, p. 15, pl. CXXI.1).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, dome. Martyrdom, freezing. Forty martyrs, wearing loin cloths, stand huddled together in icy water. At the left, one disappears into a hut. Above, the jewelled crowns of martyrdom are suspended in the air. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 310, fig. 35, pls. 145, 147-8).

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