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 31

Melania the Younger.

Ascetic. Founder of monasteries on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. 383-439.

Synax.CP, Dec. 31, par. 1 (col. 359).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Dec. 31.

BHG 1240z-1242; BiblSS IX 282-5; Holweck 700; LCI VII 628; ODB 1331-2; ODCC 899.

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 51, fol. 220v. Woman saint, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 99, fig. 3B12).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 23r. Woman saint. Orant. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 13, fig. 41).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 282v. Nun, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 285. Nun. Orant. Building, knotted columns. (Menologio, I, p. 78, II, fig. p. 285).

Cozia. Narthex, east wall. Melania and another woman saint. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 61, pl. 239).

Zoticus the Guardian.
Zoticus of Constantinople.

Priest. Founder of an orphanage at Constantinople. Martyred under Constantius.

SEE ALSO: January 8.

Synax.CP, Dec. 31, par. 2 (cols. 359-62).

BHG 2479-2480; BiblSS XII 1505-6; Holweck 1052; LCI VIII 644.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 282v. Martyr, holding cross. Wears mantle with gold clasps.

Prophet; Obadiah?.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 286. Possibly Obadiah. Prophet, holding scroll. Building decorated with shell lunette. No name is given, and no text accompanies the miniature. (Der Nersessian, "Date of the Menologium," p. 116; Menologio, I, p. 78, II, fig. p. 286).