Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 30


Silas of Corinth; Silvanus of Thessalonica; Crescens of Galatia; Epaenetus of Carthage; Andronicus of Rome.

Disciples of Paul the Apostle. Two of the Seventy Apostles. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, July 30, par. 1 (col. 855); Synax. selecta (cols. 855-6).

Silas of Corinth. Said to be the first bishop of Corinth.

SEE ALSO: November 26.

Silvanus of Thessalonica. Said to be bishop of Thessalonica. Martyred at Philippi.

BiblSS XI 1051-4; Holweck 912; LCI VIII 351.

Crescens of Galatia. Martyred under Trajan. Mentioned in Romans 16:5.

DHGE XIII 1025; Holweck 241.

Epaenetus of Carthage. Said to be bishop of Carthage.

BiblSS IV 1255; Holweck 323.

Andronicus of Rome.

SEE ALSO: May 17.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49v. Bishops. Silvanus, holding book, and Silas, at the head of a group of bishops. Silvanus'' name is inscribed. Half-figures. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 93).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Epaenetus of Carthage and Andronicus of Rome?79 Group of apostles. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 306, fig. T III 47b; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

79 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 306.