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 15

Eleutherius of Illyricum.

Bishop of Illyricum. Martyred with his mother Anthia and the prefect Corebus of Messina under Hadrian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 15, par. 1 (cols. 307-10).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 15.

BHG 568-572e; BiblSS IV 1012-6; DHGE XV 146; Holweck 237, 309; LCI VI 116-7.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 33v. Martyrdom, stabbing with knife. Eleutherius, a bishop, and his mother Anthia are being stabbed in the throat. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 97, fig. 3B2).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21r. 1) Eleutherius. Bishop. Martyrdom, beheading. 2) Anthia. Woman saint. Orant. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 12 [woman saint, unidentified], fig. 37).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 271r. Bishop, holding book.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 246. Corebus and Eleutherius. Martydom, beheading. Corebus and Eleutherius, bishop, are about to be beheaded. At left, flames pour out of an opening in a vertical furnace. (Menologio, I, p. 67, II, fig. p. 246).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Bishop. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 354, fig. 61, pl. 239).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, east bay, vault. Eleutherius.116 Martyrdom, stabbing with knife. Fragmentary scene. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 114, fig. T V 1a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 330, fig. 48).

116 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 114.

Bacchus the Younger.

Monk. Martyred in Jerusalem by the Arabs. 8th cen.

Synax.CP, Dec. 15, par. 2 (cols. 310-2); Dec. 16, Synax. selecta (cols. 313-6); Dec. 17, Synax. selecta (cols. 319-22).

BHG 209; BiblSS II 688; DHGE VI 50; Holweck 127; LCI V 302.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21r. Bacchus? Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 12 [unidentified], fig. 37).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 271r. Dec. 16. Wearing chiton and himation.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 253. Dec. 17. Monk. Martyrdom, beheading. Church. (BiblSS II, fig. cols. 687-8; Menologio, I, p. 69, II, fig. p. 253).