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 15

Onesimus of Ephesus.

Slave of Philemon of Colossae. Bishop of Ephesus in Asia. Martyr. Disciple of Paul the Apostle. One of the Seventy Apostles. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, Feb. 15, par. 1 (cols. 465-7).

BHG 1376y-1377d; BiblSS IX 1180-1; Fedalto 113; Holweck 756; LCI VIII 83-4; ODCC 1000.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 68. Martyrdom, beating with clubs. Wearing loin cloth. Damaged. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 14).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 401. Martyrdom, beating with clubs. Wearing loin cloth. (Menologio, I, p. 109, II, fig. p. 401).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading? Damaged scene. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 356, fig. 62, pls. 245, 247).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrom, beating with clubs. Wearing loin cloth. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 275, fig. 13, pls. 71, 73; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 105.2).

Major of Gaza.

Soldier. Martyred at Gaza in Palestine under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Feb. 15, par. 2 (col. 467).

Holweck 642; LCI VII 474.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 403. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 109, II, fig. p. 403).

Euphrosyna and Paphnutius of Alexandria.

Virgin, disguised monk under the name Smaragdus, and her father Paphnutius. 5th cen.

SEE ALSO: September 25.

Synax.CP, Feb. 15, par. 4 (col. 468).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 402. Paphnutius. Monk, holding closed scroll. Euphrosyna. Monk. Hands raised. Arcade. The names are given, but no text accompanies the miniature. (Menologio, I, p. 109, II, fig. p. 402).