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 July 16

Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus.

From Ephesus in Asia or Iconium in Lycaonia. Onesiphorus, said to be bishop of Colophon in Asia or of Coronea in Helladis. Disciple of Paul the Apostle. One of the Seventy Apostles. Martyred with his servant Porphyrius. 1st cen.

SEE ALSO: November 9, December 8 (Onesiphorus).

Synax.CP, July 16, par. 1 (cols. 823-4).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beating with clubs. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 283, fig. 7, pl. 98; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 79).

Antiochus of Sebaste.

Physician from Sebaste (in Armenia?). Brother of Plato of Ancyra. Martyred in Galatia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, July 16, par. 3 (cols. 824-825); July 17, Synax. selecta (cols. 825-6).

BHG 2030; BiblSS III 1299-1300; DHGE III 705-6; Holweck 85; LCI V 201.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, west arch, soffit. July 17. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 283, fig. 15, pl. 103; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).

630 Fathers of Council of Chalcedon

Commemorates the Council of Chalcedon, 451.

Synax.CP, July 16, par. 4 (col. 826).

BHG 2334-2335; Holweck 204; LCI VIII 536-7.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 47v. Large group of monks. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 28, fig. 89).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, east wall, pilaster. A large group of monks, two holding scrolls, one wearing a hood, accompany Athenogenes of Armenia. Half-figures. (See below, July 17).

SEE ALSO: Athenogenes of Armenia, July 17