Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for July 7


Thomas of Mount Maleon.

Hermit on Mount Maleon in the Peloponnesus or in Bithynia. Unknown time (7th-9th centuries).

Synax.CP, July 7, par. 1 (cols. 803-804).

BiblSS XII 584-5; Holweck 976; LCI VIII 491.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 46v. Monk. Bust. (Hutter, II, p. 27, fig. 87).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, east arch, soffit. Monk, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 281, fig. 15, pl. 101; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).


Isaurus of Apollonia.

Deacon. Martyred with companions at Apollonia (in Epirus Nova or Macedonia?) under Numerian.

Synax.CP, July 7, par. 2 (cols. 804-805).

BiblSS VII 946-7; Holweck 512.

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, south wall, east arch, soffit. Isaurus and companions. Four martyrs, three holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 281, fig. 15, pl. 101; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 80).


Cyriaka of Nicomedia.
Kyriaki of Nicomedia; Domnica of Tropea.

Virgin. Martyred at Nicomedia in Bithynia under Diocletian. Relics translated to Tropea in Calabria.

SEE ALSO: June 6.

Synax.CP, July 7, Synax. selecta (cols. 803-6).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, west bay. Kyriaka?68 Martyrdom, beheading. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 281, fig. T IX 3c; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 44).

68 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 281.