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 21

Juliana of Nicomedia.

Virgin. Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Dec. 21, par. 1 (cols. 333-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 21.

BHG 962z-963; BiblSS VI 1176-7; Holweck 570; LCI VII 228-31.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 97v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 98, fig. 3B6).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21v. Woman saint. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 12, fig. 38).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 272r. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 261. Juliana and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. Juliana is about to be beheaded. The bodies and severed heads of two youthful male co-martyrs lie on the ground. (Menologio, I, p. 71, II, fig. p. 261).

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

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, center bay, vault. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 120, fig. T VI 5; Mijović, Menolog, p. 330, fig. 52, pl. 223; Petković, pl. CXIV).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, north wall. Woman saint. Martyrdom, burning. Half-figure, in flames. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 12, pl. 46).

Themistocles of Lycia.

Shepherd. Martyred in Lycia under Decius.

Synax.CP, Dec. 21, par. 2 (col. 334).

BHG 2418; BiblSS XII 190-1; Holweck 955; LCI VIII 436.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 21v. Martyrdom, dragging. Themistocles, wearing loin cloth, is dragged by a rope tied around his ankles. (Hutter, II, p. 12 [unidentified], fig. 38).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 262. Martyrdom, dragging. Themistocles, wearing loin cloth, is dragged, face down, with a rope tied around his ankles by two executioners. His intestines are falling onto the ground. (Menologio, I, p. 71, II, fig. p. 262).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, north wall. Torture, beating with club. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 12).

SEE ALSO: Philogonius of Antioch, December 20