The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 3

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Timothy and Maura of Antinoe.

Timothy, a lector, and his wife Maura. Martyred at Antinoe in 286.

Synax.CP, May 3, par. 1 (cols. 649-50).

BHG 1848z-1849; BiblSS XII 496-7; Holweck 984; LCI VIII 496.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 38r. Maura, a woman saint, holding a cross, and Timothy, a bishop, holding a book. Timothy''s name is inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 22, fig.70).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west bay, vault. Martyrdom, crucifixion?⁴⁴ Fragmentary. Only part of the figures and a wall are preserved. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 222, fig. T III 38).

SEE ALSO: Hesperus, Zoe, Cyriacus and Theodulus of Attalia, May 2

⁴⁴ Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 222.

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