Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for August 9


Matthew the Evangelist.

Evangelist. Apostle. Surnamed Levi. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: November 16.

Synax.CP, Aug. 9, par. 1 (cols. 877-80).

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

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


Antoninus of Alexandria.

Martyred in Alexandria at an unknown time.

Synax.CP, Aug. 9, par. 4 (cols. 881-2).

BiblSS II 78-9, Holweck 87.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, north aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, burning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 284, fig. 10, pl. 112; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 85).

SEE ALSO: Dometius, Martyr, August 7<