Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 7


Dometius of Nisibis.

Monk. Martyred at Nisibis under Julian the Apostate. Possibly the same as the physician commemorated on Oct. 4.

Synax.CP, Aug. 7, par. 1 (cols. 869-70).

BHG 560-561; BiblSS IV 746; DHGE XIV 589-90; Holweck 284; LCI VI 71.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 50v. Martyrdom, stoning. (Hutter, II, p. 30, fig. 95).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Aug. 9. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west wall 14).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Aug. 9. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 112; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

SEE ALSO: Aemilianus of Cyzicus, August 8