Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 13


Martin I of Rome.

Pope, 649-53. Martyr. d. 655.

SEE ALSO: September 16.

Synax.CP, April 13, par. 1 (cols. 599-602); April 14, Synax. selecta (cols. 601-2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 35v. April 14. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 65).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. Martin?36 (Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 50; Petković, Dečani, p. 17).

Treskavac. Narthex, west wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 313, fig. 37, pl. 157).

SEE ALSO:
Artemon of Laodicia, April 12
Crescens of Myra, April 15

36 Mijović and Petković identify a figure of a bishop as Martin I of Rome, April 13. Babić et al, Dečani, no. 208, argue that this bishop is located in a section of the fresco assigned to the feasts of April 18.