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 February 12

Meletius of Antioch.
Meletius the Great.

Bishop of Antioch, 360-381 (with interruptions).

Synax.CP, Feb. 12, par. 2 (cols. 459-460).

BHG 1243-1245; BiblSS IX 296-300; Fedalto 682; Holweck 701; ODCC 900.

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Bishop. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Bishop, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 275, fig. 13, pl. 70; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 108.3).

Marina the Disguised and her father Eugenius.

Virgin. Disguised monk, under the name Marinus, in the same monastery as her father.

Synax.CP, Feb. 12, par. 4 (col. 460).

BHG 1163-1163e; BiblSS VIII 1165-70; Holweck 658; LCI VII 545-6.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 46. Marina. Death. Two monks stand near the body of Marina, wearing monk''s habit, laid out on a bier. The innkeeper''s daughter who had falsely accused her approaches, hair flying. Damaged. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 11).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 394. Marina. Death. Two monks stand near the body of Marina, wearing monk''s habit, laid out on a bier. The innkeeper''s daughter who had falsely accused her approaches, hair flying. Damaged. (Menologio, I, p. 107, II, fig. p. 394).

Anthony II of Constantinople.
Anthony Cauleas.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 893-901.

Synax.CP, Feb. 12, par. 5 (cols. 460-2).

BHG 139-139b; BiblSS II 202; DHGE III 765; Fedalto 6; Holweck 89; LCI V 218; Nicol 10; ODB 125.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 393. Bishop. Praying. Anthony stands with draped hands raised in prayer. At right, within a wall, a centralized church with cross-surmounted dome. (Menologio, I, p. 107, II, fig. p. 393).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 275, fig. 13, pl. 70; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 108.3).

Feb. 12. SEE ALSO: Eulogius of Alexandria, February 13