Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for June 13


Aquilina the Elder.
Aquilina of Byblos.

Virgin. Martyred at Byblos in Phoenicia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, June 13, par. 1 (cols. 747-8).

BHG 163-163e; BiblSS II 329; DHGE III 1143; Holweck 98; LCI V 239-40.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 43v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 25, fig. 81).

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

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, spandrel. Martyrdom, beheading. The executioner grasps Aquilina, kneeling, by the hair and raises his sword to behead her. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 280, fig. 9, pl. 86; Todić, Staro Nagoričino, p. 81).