Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 24


Artemon of Seleucia.

Bishop of Seleucia in Pisidia. Disciple of Paul the Apostle. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, March 24, par. 1 (col. 557).

BHG 2047; BiblSS II 491; DHGE IV 799; Holweck 109; LCI V 255.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 32v. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 59).


James the Confessor.
James the Younger of Catania.

Bishop of Catania. Confessor at Constantinople during the Iconoclast controversy. d. ca. 824.

Synax.CP, March 24, par. 2 (col. 558); March 21, Synax. selecta (cols. 551-2).

Holweck 517.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 32v. March 21. Monk, holding cross. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 59).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beating.28 (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 192, fig. T VIII 28a; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 43).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, west wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 34, pl. 152).

28 Identifiction proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 192. The inscribed name is not preserved.


Dometius of Phrygia.

Martyred with companions in Phrygia under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, March 24, par. 3 (col. 558); March 23, Synax. selecta (cols. 555-6).

Holweck 284.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 237. Dometius and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. Dometius is about to be beheaded; two companions, bound, stand at the right. Building. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 50).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, south wall. March 23. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 33, pl. 151).