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 14

Auxentius of Bithynia.

Priest. Hermit. Founder of monasteries on Mount Auxentius in Bithynia. ca. 420-ca. 470.

Synax.CP, Feb. 14, par. 1 (col. 465).

BHG 199-203c; BiblSS II 627; DHGE V 938-9; Holweck 124; LCI V 297; ODB 236.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 59. Monk. Orant. Auxentius stands under a pointed arch. Damaged. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 13).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 399. Monk. Orant. Auxentius stands under a pointed arch. (Menologio, I, p. 108, II, fig. p. 399).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Monk. Praying. Inscription destroyed. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62).

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

Philemon of Gaza.

Bishop of Gaza in Palestine I. Martyr. One of the Seventy Apostles. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 14, par. 4 (col. 466).

BiblSS V 688; Fedalto 1021; Holweck 809; LCI VIII 197.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 400. Bishop. Praying. Martyrdom, burning in furnace. Philemon, standing in a blazing furnace, raises his hands in prayer toward an arc of Heaven from which rays descend. The name is given, but no text accompanies the miniature. (Menologio, I, pp. 108-9, II, fig. p. 400).

SEE ALSO: Aquila and Priscilla of Corinth, February 13