Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 3


Nicetas of the Medikion.

Monk. Abbot of Medikion Monastery in Bithynia. d. 824.

Synax.CP, April 3, par. 1 (col. 581).

BHG 1341-1342b; BiblSS IX 890-2; Holweck 737; LCI VIII 43; ODB 1482.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 34r. Monk. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 20, fig. 62).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 304v. Monk, holding open scroll.

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. April 4. Monk. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 204, fig. T III 31b; Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 50; Petković, Dečani, p. 16).


Joseph the Hymnographer.

Monk. Hymnographer in Constantinople. Confessor. d. 886.

Synax.CP, April 3, par. 3 (cols. 581-4); April 4, Synax. selecta (cols. 585-6).

BHG 944-947b; BiblSS VI 1304-5; Holweck 562-3; LCI VII 208-9; ODB 1074.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 34v. April 4. Monk, holding cross. (Hutter, II, p. 20, fig. 63).