Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 23


Trophimus and Theophilus, Martyrs.

Martyred with companions under Diocletian. Place not known.

Synax.CP, July 23, par. 6 (col. 836).

BiblSS XII 675; Holweck 990; LCI VIII 500.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 48v. Trophimus and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 91).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Trophimus and Theophilus and companions?71 Group of half-figures, some holding scrolls. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 299, fig. T III 44c; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

71 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 299.