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 January 11

Theodosius the Coenobiarch.

Monk. Founder of a monastery near Jerusalem. d. 529.

Synax.CP, Jan. 11, par. 1 (cols. 383-5).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 11.

BHG 1776-1778b; BiblSS XII 290-2; Holweck 964-5; LCI VIII 454; ODB 2053.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 70v. Monk. Orant. Standing under arch. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," pp. 49-50, fig. 22).

Mount Sinai, gr. 512, fol. 2v. Monk, holding closed scroll. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 23, figs. 1B6, 1B8; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 71, fig. 198; color pl. 15).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 24v. Monk. Orant. Two buildings. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 44).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 294r. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 310. Monk. Orant. Arch decorated with two eagles. (Menologio, I, p. 84, II, fig. p. 310; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 49, fig. 23).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 585, fol. 18v. Monk. Hands raised. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 45, fig. 1E3).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pl. 51).

Synaxis of Archangels.

Synax.CP, Jan. 11, par. 2 (col. 386); Jan. 12, Synax. selecta (cols. 385-386).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 24v. Jan. 12. Group of angels wearing loroi, holding scepters and globes. Damaged. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 44).

Peter Abselamus.

Martyred at Caesarea in Palestine under Maximin Daia

Synax.CP, Jan. 11, par. 3 (col. 386).

BHG 1193; BiblSS X 791-2; Holweck 791.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 309. Martyrdom, burning in furnace. Orant. (Menologio, I, p. 84, II, fig. p. 309).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, burning.7 (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pls. 51, 59; Millet, Peinture, III, pl. 108.1).

7 Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, records the feast day as Jan. 12.