Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 12


Photius II and Anicetus of Nicomedia.
Photinus of Nicomedia.

Anicetus, a soldier, martyred with his nephew Photius under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 12, par. 1 (cols. 885-6).

BHG 1542-1544f; BiblSS I 1265-6; DHGE III 281; Holweck 78-9, 816; LCI VIII 211.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 51r. Photius and Anicetus. Martyrdom, burning. (Hutter, II, p. 30, fig. 96).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Photius and Anicetus. Martyrdom, burning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 113; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

Thessaloniki, Nicholas Orphanos. Photius and Anicetus. Martyrdom, burning. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 259, fig. 4, pl. 18; Tsitouridou, pp. 185-6, pls. 77-8).