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 26

Xenophon, Mary, Arcadius and John of Jerusalem.

Married couple and their sons, who all entered monasteries in Jerusalem. Unknown time.

Synax.CP, Jan. 26, par. 1 (cols. 423-4).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 26.

BHG 1877u-1879; Holweck 1044; LCI VIII 633.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 26v. Xenophon, Arcadius, John and Mary. Xenophon holds a cross. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 15, fig. 48).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 295v. Xenophon, Arcadius and John. Monks, holding crosses. Mary. Nun, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 351. Xenophon, Arcadius and John. Monks, holding closed scrolls. Mary. Nun, hands raised. Arcade. (Menologio, I, p. 95, II, fig. p. 351).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, east wall. Xenophon. Monk. Orant. Bust. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 147, fig. T I 15; Mijović, Menolog, p. 333, fig. 47; Petković, Dečani, p. 14, pls. CXVI, CXVIII.1).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, west wall. Xenophon. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 308, fig. 34, pl. 142).

Earthquake, Constantinople, 450.

Synax.CP, Jan. 26, par. 2 (cols. 425-6).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 350. Procession of penitence. Two groups of people carrying lighted candles flank the leaders of the procession, a priest holding a pyxis and censer, a deacon carrying a gemmed processional cross, the patriarch Anatolius, wearing bishop''s vestments, holding a book, and Emperor Theodosius II, barefoot, wearing a crown surmounted by a cross. (Menologio, I, p. 95, II, fig. p. 350).