The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for January 20

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(1). Euthymius the Great.

Monk. Founder of coenobitic monasticism in Palestine. 377-473.

Synax.CP, Jan. 20, par. 1 (col. 405).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 20.

BHG 647-650d; BiblSS V 329-33; DHGE XVI 61; Holweck 350-1; LCI VI 201-3; ODB 756-7; ODCC 484.

Baltimore, Walters, 521, fol. 158v. Monk. Orant. Standing in landscape.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 25v. Monk. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 15, fig. 46).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 295r. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 338. Monk. Orant. Standing under arch. (Menologio, I, p. 91, II, fig. p. 338).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Monk,¹³ holding scroll with fragmentary inscription. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 141, fig. T III 22c; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 272, fig. 13, pl. 55).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 307, fig. 33, pl. 139).

¹³ Inscription of name destroyed. Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 141.

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Bassus, Eusebius (I), Eutychius and Basilides of Nicomedia.

Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Jan. 20, par. 2 (cols. 405-6).

BiblSS II 968; Holweck 141; LCI V 343-4.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 336. 1) Bassus. Martyrdom, burial in pit. 2) Basilides. Martyrdom, disembowelment. Wearing loin cloth. 3) Eusebius. Torture, suspension. Martyrdom, axe. Eusebius, wearing loin cloth, hangs upside down by a rope around his ankles. An executioner brandishes an axe. 4) Eutychius. Martyrdom, torn apart. Eutychius, wearing loin cloth, covered with wounds, lies on his back, his wrists and ankles tied to four pegs in the ground. (BiblSS II, fig. cols. 969-70; Menologio, I, p. 91, II, fig. p. 336).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, south aisle, west wall. 1) Bassus and Eusebius. Torture, crucifixion. Bassus and Eusebius, wearing loin cloths, are nailed to crosses. 2) Eutychius and Basilides. Martyrdom, drowning. (Mijović, Menolog, pp. 272-3, fig. 8, pl. 60).

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Eugenius, Valerian, Candidus and Aquila of Trebizond.

Martyred at Trebizond under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Jan. 20, par. 3 (cols. 406-7).

BHG 608y-613; BiblSS V 202-3; DHGE III 1110, XV 1344; Holweck 335; LCI VI 177.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 335. Martyrdom, beheading. Three of the martyrs wear loin cloths. (Menologio, I, pp. 90-1, II, fig. p. 335).

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Innas, Pinnas and Rimmas of Scythia.

Goths, martyred in the 4th cen. In Byzantine synaxaries, said to be disciples of Andrew the Apostle.

Synax.CP, Jan. 20, par. 4 (col. 407).

BHG 2184; BiblSS VII 818; Holweck 505; LCI VI 588.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 337. Martyrdom, freezing. The three martyrs, wearing loin cloths, are bound to posts in the icy sea. (Menologio, I, p. 91, II, fig. p. 337).

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