Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for June 23


Agrippina of Rome.

Virgin. Martyred at Rome under Valerian.

Synax.CP, June 23, par. 1 (cols. 763-5).

BHG 2018; BiblSS I 615; DHGE I 1038; Holweck 35; LCI V 64.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 44v. Agrippina and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 26, fig. 83).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 359, fig. 62, pl. 256).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, north wall, center bay. Martyrdom, beating. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 267, fig. T IX 12a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 339, fig. 44, pl. 226; Petković, Dečani, p. 19, pl. 103.2).


Aristocleus and Demetrianus of Salamis.

Aristocleus, a priest, martyred with Demetrianus, a deacon, and Athanasius, a lector, or Dionysius at Salamis in Cyprus under Maximian.

Synax.CP, June 23, par. 2 (cols. 765-6).

BiblSS II 426-7; Holweck 104; LCI V 246.

Gračanica. Narthex, northwest tower, north wall. Aristocleus, Demetrianus? (here inscribed Dionysius), and a companion. Martyrdom, burning. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 303, fig. 25; Todić, Gračanica, p. 106; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II northwest dome 6).