The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 16

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Translation of the Mandylion from Edessa to Constantinople.

Synax.CP, Aug. 16, par. 1 (cols. 893-901)

Simeon Metaphrastes, Aug. 16.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 142v. Mandylion. The head of Christ, cross-nimbed, on a fringed cloth. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 47, fig. 5G2).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 192v. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 70, fig. 2B3-4).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 51v. Christ gives Mandylion to saint. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 97).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 181v. 1) Abgar. 2) Christ, teaching. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 142, fig. 4B11).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 182r. 1) Abgar. Baptized by Thaddeus the Apostle. Abgar, nude, stands in a quatrefoil font. An attendant holds a towel. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 142-3, fig. 4B12).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Mandylion. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 306, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west wall 14).

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

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Diomedes of Nicaea.
Diomedes of Tarsus.

Physician in Constantinople. Martyred at Nicaea under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Aug. 16, par. 2 (col. 901).

BHG 548-552; BiblSS IV 629-30; DHGE XIV 504; Holweck 277; LCI VI 58.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 51v. Martyrdom, beheading. Diomedes lies on a bed, while an executioner raises his sword over him. (Hutter, II, p. 31, fig. 97).

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