Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 19


John Palaeolaurita.

Monk at the Monastery of St. Chariton in the Judaean desert. Priest. Hymnographer. 8th-9th cen.

Synax.CP, April 19, par. 2 (cols. 615-616); April 18, Synax. selecta (cols. 611-4).

BiblSS VI 861-3; Holweck 537.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 36r. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 21, fig. 66).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. April 18. Standing figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 61).

Gračanica. South aisle, south wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 297, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).

SEE ALSO: Christopher, Theonas and Antoninus of Nicomedia, April 20