Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for June 12


Onuphrius the Great.

Hermit in Egypt. 4th-5th cen.

Synax.CP, June 12, par. 1 (cols. 745-6).

BHG 1378-1382c; BiblSS IX 1187-1200; Holweck 757; LCI VIII 84-88; ODB 1527.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 43r. Hermit, wearing a loin cloth. Orant. (Hutter, II, p. 25, fig. 80).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 312v. Hermit, wearing a loin cloth of leaves. Orant.

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Hermit. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 359, fig. 62, pl. 250).


Zeno of Cyprus.

Bishop of Kourion in Cyprus. Participated in the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Synax.CP, June 12, par. 4 (col. 748); June 13, Synax. selecta (cols. 747-8).

Fedalto 882; Holweck 1048.

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. June 13. Zeno. Bishop, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 359, fig. 62, pls. 250, 254).