The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for October 29

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Anastasia the Elder.

Virgin. Martyred under Valerian.

SEE ALSO: October 12.

Synax.CP, Oct. 29, par. 1 (cols. 171-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 28.

Istanbul, Greek Patriarchate, 80, fol. 230v. Oct. 28. Torture. Anastasia, wearing loin cloth, prone on a rack. Initial {D}. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 114-5, fig. 6E8).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 226v. Oct. 28. Woman saint, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 57, fig. 6C5).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 233v. Oct. 28. Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 57, fig. 6C6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 15r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 8, fig. 25).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 263r. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 297v. Oct. 28. Two women saints, one holding cross. Initial {D}. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 164, fig. 4F7).

Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Oct. 28. Woman saint, holding cross. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 20, figs. 1A7, 1A9).

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Abraham of Chiduna and Mary the Penitent.

Abraham, a hermit in the Mesopotamian desert. He converted his niece Mary, a prostitute who became a nun. 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Oct. 29, par. 2 (cols. 173-5).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 29.

BHG 5-8e; BiblSS I 113-5; Holweck 5, 679; LCI V 7-8, VII 511.

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 233v. Abraham. Monk. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 57, fig. 6C6).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 263r. Abraham. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 146. Abraham. Monk. Praying toward Hand of God emerging from a starry arc of Heaven. At left, water flows from a spring into a re-used pagan sarcophagus, decorated with reliefs of nude male athletes. Basilican church; cross on gable. (Menologio, I, p. 38, II, fig. p. 146).

Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 307r. The head of Abraham appears in a window at the top of the initial A. At the left, Mary, a nun, stands in a doorway. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 164, fig. 4F8).

Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Abraham. Monk. The bust of Abraham is visible in the window of his cell. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 20, figs. 1A7, 1A9).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Abraham?¹⁰⁶ Monk. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 351, fig. 62, pl. 237).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Abraham. Monk, holding inscribed scroll. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 65, fig. T IV 5; Mijović, Menolog, p. 324, fig. 42, pl. 193).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Abraham. Monk. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 267, fig. 6, pl. 37).

¹⁰⁶ Inscription destroyed. Not identified by Mijović, Menolog.

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Joseph I of Constantinople; Cleophas of Emmaus.

Synax.CP, Oct. 29, par. 3 (cols. 175-6); cf. Oct. 30, Synax. selecta (cols. 180-1).

Joseph I of Constantinople. Patriarch of Constantinople, 1266-1275, 1282-1283.

Fedalto 8; Holweck 564; Nicol 64; ODB 1073.

Cleophas of Emmaus. One of the disciples whom Christ met on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24:18-35). One of the Seventy Apostles. 1st cen.

BHG 2076; BiblSS IV 52-4; Holweck 220; LCI VII 325-6.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, east wall. Joseph. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Cleophas. Apostle, holding scroll. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 267, fig. 9, pl. 38).

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