The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

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Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 15

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John the Calybite.

Monk. Lived in a hut at his parents'' gate in Constantinople. 5th cen.

Synax.CP, Jan. 15, par. 1 (col. 393).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 15.

BHG 868-869h; BiblSS VI 640-3; Holweck 532-3; LCI VII 139-40.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 96r. Monk, holding book. Beardless. Standing under arch. (Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," pp. 51-2, fig. 30).

Mount Sinai, gr. 512, fol. 2v. Monk, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 23, figs. 1B6, 1B9; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 71, fig. 198; color pl. 15).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 25r. Monk, holding book. Half-figure. Damaged. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 45).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 294v. Monk, holding book. Damaged.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 322. Monk, holding book. Beardless. Standing under arch. (Menologio, I, p. 87, II, fig. p. 322; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," pp. 51-2, fig. 31).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 585, fol. 91r. Monk, holding book. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 45, fig. 1E6).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, soffit. Jan. 16. Monk, holding book. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 137, fig. T VI 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 332, fig. 51, pl. 211; Petković, Dečani, p. 14, pl. CVIII).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pl. 57).

Paul of Thebes.

The first Christian hermit, in the Egyptian desert. 4th cen.

SEE ALSO: January 5.

Synax.CP, Jan. 15, par. 2 (cols. 393-4).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 25r. Monk. Orant. Damaged. (Hutter, II, p. 14, fig. 45).

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

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 321. Monk. Death. Anthony the Great, wearing hooded monk''s habit, kneels in proskynesis at the feet of the body of Paul of Thebes, lying in front of a cave. (Menologio, I, p. 87, II, fig. p. 321; Ševčenko, N., "Walters ''Imperial'' Menologion," p. 46, fig. 9).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Hermit. Wearing rope garment and cap. Holding a closed scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pl. 57).

Pansophius of Alexandria.

Hermit. Martyred at Alexandria under Decius.

Synax.CP, Jan. 15, par. 3 (cols. 394-5); Jan. 16, Synax. selecta (cols. 395-8).

BiblSS X 104-5; Holweck 768; LCI VIII 111.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 325. Jan. 16. Monk. Martyrdom, beating with clubs. Pansophius lies prone, hands and feet tied to pegs in the ground. (Menologio, I, p. 88, II, fig. p. 325).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 271, fig. 13, pl. 55).

Charitina of Corycus.

Virgin. Martyred at Corycus in Cilicia under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: October 5.

Synax.CP, Jan. 15, Synax. selecta (cols. 393-6).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 323. Torture, extracting teeth; scraping feet. Praying. Charitina lies flat on her back, hands raised in prayer. A torturer extracts her teeth; two others hold her foot and scrape it with an iron rod. (Menologio, I, pp. 87-8, II, fig. p. 323).