Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 30


John Climacus.

Monk. Abbot of Monastery of Mount Sinai. Author of The Ladder of Paradise. d. ca. 650.

Synax.CP, March 30, par. 1 (cols. 571-4).

BHG 882-883h; BiblSS VI 664-6; Holweck 537; LCI VII 140-4; ODB 1060-1; ODS 233.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 263. Monk. Draped architectural setting. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 9, fig. 56).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 33v. Monk. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 19, fig. 61).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 304v. Monk, holding open scroll.

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding inscribed scroll. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 199, fig. T VIII 31a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 16, pl. CXXIV.1).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, north wall. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 311, fig. 36, pl. 155).


Acacius Climacus.

Monk, probably at Mount Latros in Caria. Known from John Climacus' The Ladder of Paradise. Confessor. 6th cen.

SEE ALSO: November 27.

Not in Synax.CP for March 30.

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Acadius Climacus?30 Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 199, fig. T VIII 31a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 336, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 16, pl. CXXIV.1).

30 Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani. The name of the monk is inscribed as Acacius. Mijović, Menolog, p. 335, suggests bishop Acacius of Melitene, represented for a second time (see March 29).