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 27

Panteleimon of Nicomedia.
Pantaleon of Nicomedia.

Physician. Megalomartyr. Martyred at Nicomedia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, July 27, par. 1 (cols. 847-8).

Simeon Metaphrastes, July 27.

BHG 1412z-1418c; BiblSS X 108-18; Holweck 768; LCI VIII 112-5; ODB 1572-3; ODCC 1027; ODS 336.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 74r. Wearing an embroidered tunic mantle and stole. Holding a flask? (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 46, fig. 5F9).

Berlin, gr. fol. 17, fol. 149r. The miniature has been cut out. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 79).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 101r. 1) Miracle, healing. A boy who was bitten by a serpent lies on the ground. Panteleimon raises his hand toward the hand of God above. 2) Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 68, fig. 2A10).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 92).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 100r. Holding a scroll. Wall and towers. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 141, fig. 4B5).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 116v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 141, fig. 4B6).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall, window embrasure. Panteleimon?77 Martyrdom, beheading. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 304, fig. T III 46; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).

77 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 304.

Anthusa the Elder.
Anthusa of Constantinople

Virgin. Nun. Founded two monasteries near Mantinea in Asia Minor. Confessor for the cult of images under Constantine V.

Synax.CP, July 27, par. 2 (cols. 848-52).

BiblSS II 224-5; DHGE III 538; Holweck 84.

Gračanica. Narthex, north aisle, south wall. Nun, holding cross. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 30; Todić, Gračanica, p. 104; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V south wall 6).