The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 2

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Athanasius of Alexandria.

Bishop of Alexandria, 328-73.

SEE ALSO: January 18.

Synax.CP, May 2, par. 1 (cols. 647-8).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 38r. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 22, fig. 70).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 306v. Bishop, holding book.

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west bay, vault. Bishop,⁴³ wearing polystavrion. Half-figure. Fragmentary. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 222, fig. T III 38).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, vault. Death. Athanasius lies in a sarcophagus. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 279, fig. 14).

⁴³ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 222.

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Hesperus, Zoe, Cyriacus and Theodulus of Attalia.

Husband and wife and their sons, martyred at Attalia in Pamphylia under Hadrian.

Synax.CP, May 2, par. 2 (cols. 649-50).

BHG 746-746b; BiblSS V 96-7; Holweck 479.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 38r. Zoe and Cyriacus or Theodulus? Busts of a woman and child, in a cave? (Hutter, II, p. 22 [unidentified], fig. 70).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 306v. May 3. Martyrs, holding crosses. Hesperus and Zoe flank their sons.

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