Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Introduction Calendar Abbreviations List of Iconographical Motifs List of Iconographical Scenes List of Feasts

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for December 12

Spiridon of Cyprus.
Spyridon of Cyprus.

Bishop of Trimithus in Cyprus. Originally a shepherd. 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Dec. 12, par. 1 (col. 303).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 12.

BHG 1647-8; BiblSS XI 1354-9; Fedalto 888; Holweck 931; LCI VIII 387-9; ODB 1940; ODCC 1303.

Milan, Ambrosiana, gr. 1017, fol. 183r. Bishop, holding book. Wearing woven shepherd's cap. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 131, figs. 3G6-7).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 20v. Bishop, holding book. Wearing shepherd's cap. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 11, fig. 36).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 270v. Bishop, holding book. Wearing woven shepherd's cap. (Weitzmann, "Five Martyrs of Sebaste," fig. 6).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 239. Bishop, holding book. Wearing woven shepherd's cap. Building with two towers. Spiridon stands under the central arch, which is surmounted by a cross. A lamp hands by three chains from a bracket. On the ground at left and right are a partly unfurled inscribed scroll and a closed book. (Menologio, I, p. 65, II, fig. p. 239).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Bishop. Damaged. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 354, fig. 61, pl. 238).

Synetus of Rome.
Synesius of Rome.

Lector. Martyred at Rome under Aurelian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 12, par. 2 (cols. 303-6).

BiblSS XI 1215; Holweck 943; LCI VIII 417.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 20v. Synetus? Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 11 [unidentified], fig. 36).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 240. Martyrdom, beheading. Small church. (Menologio, I, p. 65, II, fig. p. 240).

Synetus of Rome.
Synesius of Rome.

Lector. Martyred at Rome under Aurelian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 12, par. 2 (cols. 303-6).

BiblSS XI 1215; Holweck 943; LCI VIII 417.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 20v. Synetus? Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 11 [unidentified], fig. 36).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 240. Martyrdom, beheading. Small church. (Menologio, I, p. 65, II, fig. p. 240).