Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Introduction Calendar Abbreviations List of Iconographical Motifs List of Iconographical Scenes List of Feasts

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 13

Nicephorus I of Constantinople. Translation of Relics.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 806-815. Confessor during Iconoclasm under Leo V the Armenian. d. in exile in 828.

SEE ALSO: June 2.

Synax.CP, March 13, par. 1 (cols. 533-4). Translation of relics.

BHG 1335-1337f; BiblSS IX 871-84; Fedalto 6; Holweck 737; LCI VIII 40-2; Nicol 98; ODB 1477; ODCC 968-9.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 197. Translation of Relics. Procession. Three priests, one carrying a censer and pyxis, follow two men carrying a reliquary casket toward a domed church. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 39, color pl. IV).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 31v. Nicephorus. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 18, fig. 57).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Translation of Relics. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 188, fig. T VIII 19a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 16).

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, south wall. Nicephorus. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, vault. Translation of Relics. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 14).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, dome. Nicephorus. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 35, pls. 145, 149, 156).

Alexander of Pydna.

Priest. Martyred at Pydna in Macedonia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, March 13, par. 4 (cols. 534-6); March 14, Synax. selecta (cols. 535-6).

BiblSS I 787; DHGE II 174; Holweck 45; LCI V 87.

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, south wall. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 27 [unidentified]; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, vault. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 277, fig. 14).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, dome. March 14. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 35, pls. 145, 149).