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 28

Ephraim the Syrian.
Ephraim of Edessa.

Monk. Deacon. Hymnographer. ca. 306-373.

Synax.CP, Jan. 28, par. 1 (col. 429).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Jan. 28.

BHG 583-592k; BiblSS IV 944-9; DHGE XV 590-7; Holweck 323-4; LCI VI 151-3; ODB 708-9; ODCC 462-3; ODS 143.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 26v. Monk. Death. Ephraim''s body is laid out on a bier. A group of monks mourn him. (Hutter, II, p. 15, fig. 48).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 354. Monk. Death. Ephraim''s body is laid out on a bier. A monk wearing a hooded habit, swings a censer over him; two more monks stand at his feet. In background, hermit''s cell. (BiblSS IV, fig. cols. 945-6; Menologio, I, p. 96, II, fig. p. 354).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, wearing a hood. Holding an open scroll (not inscribed). (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 149, fig. T VIII 4b; Mijović, Menolog, p. 333, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 14, pl. CXVIII.2).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, west wall. Monk, wearing a hood. Holding a scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 308, fig. 34, pl. 142).

Palladius.

Monk. Disciple of Evagrius Ponticus. Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia and of Aspona in Galatia. Author of Lausiac History. 4th-5th cen.

Synax.CP, Jan. 28, par. 2 (cols. 429-430).

BHG 1404; BiblSS X 56-57; Fedalto 58, 102; Holweck 765; LCI VIII 109; ODB 1565; ODCC 1024.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 26v. (Hutter, II, p. 15, fig. 48).