The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for November 24

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Gregory of Agrigentum.
Gregory of Akragas.

Bishop of Agrigentum in Sicily. Late 7th cen.

Synax.CP, Nov. 24, par. 1 (cols. 251-3); Nov. 23, Synax. selecta (cols. 249-52).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 24.

BHG 707-708f; BiblSS VII 169-73; DHGE XXI 1464-7; Holweck 451; LCI VI 429; ODB 879-80; ODCC 598.

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 41r. Bishop, holding book. (Mackeprang, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, pl. III; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 58, fig. 1E12).

Genoa, Miss. Urbana 36, fol. 44r. Bishop, holding book. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 44, fig. 1D7).

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 67v. Nov. 23. Bishop, holding book. (Pelekanides, Treasures, III, fig. 261; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 90, fig. 2G6).

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 71, fol. 52r. Bishop, holding book. Damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 102, fig. 3C3).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 18r. Nov. 23. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 10, fig. 31).

Paris, gr. 580, fol. 2v. Bishop, holding book. (Omont, Miniatures, p. 50, pl. 102; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 21, fig. 1A12).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268v. Bishop, holding book.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 203. Bishop. Praying. Gregory prays toward Hand of God emerging from a starry arc of Heaven. At left, four standing men, his calumniators? (Menologio, I, p. 55, II, fig. p. 203).

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Catherine of Alexandria.
Aikaterina of Alexandria.

Virgin. Martyred under Maxentius.

Synax.CP, Nov. 24, par. 2 (cols. 253-4); Nov. 25, Synax. sel. (cols. 255-8).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 24.

BHG 30-32b; BiblSS III 954-78; Holweck 198; LCI VII 289-97; ODB 392-3; ODCC 253; ODS 77-8.

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 78r. Nov. 25. Empress, holding cross. Wearing crown, loros and thorakion inscribed with a cross with double traverse. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 58, fig. 1F1).

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 116v. Empress. Half-figure. Wearing crown and loros. Orant. (Pelekanides, Treasures, III, fig. 262; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 90, fig. 2G7).

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 117r. Triumph. Initial B. Crowned emperor, probably Maxentius, encircled by a snake. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 90, fig. 2G8).

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 71, fol. 169r. Nov. 25. Empress, holding cross. Wearing crown, loros and thorakion inscribed with cross with double traverse. (Pelekanides, Treasures, III, fig. 122; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 102, fig. 3C6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 18r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 10, fig. 31).

Paris, gr. 580, fol. 2v. Empress, holding cross. Wearing crown and thorakion inscribed with cross with double traverse. (Omont, Miniatures, p. 50, pl. 102; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 21, fig. 1A12).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268v. Nov. 25. Holding cross. Wearing crown.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 207. Nov. 25. Catherine and Philosophers. Martyrdom, beheading; burning. Eleven of the fifty philosophers converted by Catherine are engulfed in flames. Catherine, wearing crown, is about to be beheaded. The Hand of God and rays reaching to the philosophers and to Catherine emerge from a starry arc of Heaven. (Menologio, I, pp. 56-7, II, fig. p. 207).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, north side. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 352, fig. 63).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, beheading. Damaged scene. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 92, fig. T IV 7; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326, fig. 42).

SEE ALSO:
Cecilia, Valerian and Tibertius of Rome, November 22
Mercurius of Caesarea, November 26
Sisinius of Cyzicus, November 23

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