Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 31


Eudocimus the Just.

Soldier. Virtuous layman. Many miracles were performed at his tomb. 807-840.

Synax.CP, July 31, par. 1 (col. 857).

Simeon Metaphrastes, July 31.

BHG 606-607e; BiblSS V 147; DHGE XV 1337; Holweck 334; LCI VI 174-5; ODB 740.

Alexandria, Greek Patriarchate, 35, fol. 92v. Soldier. Wearing a sword, holding a spear. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 46, fig. 5F11).

Berlin, gr. fol. 17, fol. 177r. Soldier. Holding a spear and sword. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 79, fig. 2F1).

Moscow, gr. 9, fol. 125r. Soldier. Holding a sword. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 69, fig. 2A12).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49v. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 93).

Paris, gr. 1528, fol. 122v. Soldier. Holding a spear and shield. Wall and towers. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 141, fig. 4B8).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall. Eudocimus?80 Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 307, fig. T III 47c; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified]).

80 Babić et al, Dečani, no. 307, propose Joseph of Arimathea for this figure.


(Julitta of Caesarea.

Widow. Martyred at Caesarea in Cappadocia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, July 31, par. 2 (cols. 857-8).

BHG 972-972e; BiblSS VI 1240-1; Holweck 575; LCI VII 241.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 49v. Julitta? Woman saint. Martyrdom, burning. Orant. Name not inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 29 [unidentified], fig. 93).