The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for November 22

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Cecilia, Valerian and Tibertius of Rome.

Cecilia, virgin, martyred in Rome with Valerian, her husband in a spiritual marriage, and his brother Tibertius. 3rd cen.

Synax.CP, Nov. 22, par. 1 (cols. 243-5); Nov. 24, Synax. selecta (cols. 251-4).

BHG 283-283c; BiblSS III 1064-86, XII 466-9; Holweck 177, 982, 1004; LCI V 455-63, VIII 532-3; ODCC 257; ODS 79-80.

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 369r. Miniature cut out. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 92).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268v. Cecilia. Nun, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 201. Nov. 24. Martyrdom, beheading. The bodies and severed heads of Valerian and Tibertius lie on the ground. Cecilia, wearing loin cloth, covering her breasts with her arms, is about to be beheaded outside the bath building of her house. (Menologio, I, pp. 54-5, II, fig. p. 201).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Cecilia?¹¹² Martyrdom, beheading. Fragmentary scene. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 90, fig. T III 16; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326, fig. 50).

¹¹² Identification suggested by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 90.

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(Mark and Stephen of Antioch in Pisidia.

Martyred at Antioch in Pisidia under Galerius.

Synax.CP, Nov. 22, par. 3 (col. 246).

BiblSS VIII 746-7; Holweck 663; LCI VII 564.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 199. Martyrdom, beheading. Mark is about to be beheaded. Steven, bound, wearing a patterned tunic, stands at the left. (Menologio, I, p. 54, II, fig. p. 199).

SEE ALSO: Philemon of Colossae, November 23

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