Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for April 4


Theodulus and Agathopus of Thessalonica.

Theodulus, lector, and Agathopus, deacon, martyred at Thessalonica under Maximian.

Synax.CP, April 4, par. 1 (cols. 583-6); April 5, Synax. selecta (cols. 585-6).

BHG 1784; BiblSS I 347-8; Holweck 967; LCI V 51.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 34v. April 5. Martyrdom, drowning. (Hutter, II, p. 20, fig. 63).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 304v. Martyrs, holding crosses.

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Martyrdom, drowning. April 5. Theodulus and Agathopus, with millstones around their necks, are floating in the water. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 61).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. April 5. Theodulus. Martyr. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 205, fig. T III 31c; Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 50; Petković, Dečani, pp. 16-17).

SEE ALSO:
Joseph the Hymnographer, April 3
Nicetas of the Medikion, April 3