The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for October 21

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Hilarion the Great.
Hilarion of Gaza.

Hermit. Founder of eremetic monasticism in Palestine. Died in Cyprus. ca. 291-371.

Synax.CP, Oct. 21, par. 1 (cols. 153-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 21.

BHG 751z-756n; BiblSS VII 731-5; Holweck 482; LCI VI 531-2; ODCC 648.

Istanbul, Greek Patriarchate, 80, fol. 153r. Priest, holding staff. Initial E. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 114, fig. 6E2).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 149r. Monk. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 56, fig. 6B10).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 14r. Monk. Praying. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 7, fig. 23).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 262v. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 128. Monk. Praying. (Menologio, I, p. 34, II, fig. p. 128).

Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 194r. Monk. Initial E. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 163, fig. 4F1).

Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Monk. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 19, figs. 1A7, 1A9).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Monk. Praying. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 351, fig. 62, pl. 236).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Monk, holding inscribed scroll. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 56, fig. T II 33; Mijović, Menolog, p. 324, fig. 41).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 265, fig. 6, pl. 31).

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Dasius, Caius and Zoticus of Nicomedia.
Gaius of Nicomedia.

Soldiers. Martyred at Nicomedia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Oct. 21, par. 2 (col. 154).

BHG 492; BiblSS IV 485; Holweck 264; LCI VI 34-5.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 14r. Martyrdom, drowning. (Hutter, II, p. 7 [unidentified], fig. 23).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 127. Martyrdom, drowning. Dasius and Caius, wearing loin cloths, bound, weights hung from ropes around their necks, are floating in the water. The executioner is about to thrown Zoticus, wearing loin cloth, head first into the water. In the background, a ram on an altar. (Menologio, I, p. 34, II, fig. p. 127).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Torture, burning. Half-figures, in flames. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 265, fig. 6, pl. 31).

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