Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 13


Maximus the Confessor. Translation of Relics.

Monk in Constantinople. Theologian. Confessor. ca. 580-662.

SEE ALSO: January 21.

Synax.CP, Aug. 13, par. 1 (cols. 887-90).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 51v. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 30, fig. 97).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Maximus. Monk. Martyrdom, dismemberment. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 113; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

Thessaloniki, Nicholas Orphanos. Translation of relics. Two men carry a reliquary casket on their shoulders. (Tsitouridou, p. 185, pl. 77).