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 5

Mark of Egypt.

Hermit in the Thebaid. Late 4th cen.

Synax.CP, March 5, par. 1 (cols. 509-11).

BHG 1039-1041n; BiblSS VIII 708-10; Holweck 660; LCI VII 562.

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 180, fig. T VIII 8a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 15, pl. CXX.2).

Gračanica. Narthex, southeast tower, west wall, lunette. Monk, holding scroll. Three-quarter figure. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 295, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 105; Živković, Gračanica, fig. II southeast dome 6).

Conon the Gardener.
Conon Hortulanus.

Gardener. From Nazareth. Martyred in Pamphylia or in Cyprus under Decius.

Synax.CP, March 5, par. 4 (cols. 511-2).

BHG 361; BiblSS IV 152-4; DHGE XIII 460-1; Holweck 230; LCI VII 332.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 30v. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 17, fig. 55).

Dečani. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Monk. Hands raised. Half-figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 180, fig. T VIII 8a; Mijović, Menolog, p. 334, fig. 43; Petković, Dečani, p. 15, pl. CXX.2).

Treskavac. Narthex, south tower, dome. Praying. Conon kneels with hands raised. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 310, fig. 35, pl. 145-6, 148).

Hypatius of Gangra.

Bishop of Gangra in Paphylagonia. Martyred by the Novations in 326.

SEE ALSO: November 14, March 31.

Not in Synax.CP on March 5.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 158. Bishop. 1) Martyrdom, stoning. From the open window of a building, a Novatian woman stones the fallen bishop. 2) Overcoming dragon. With his staff, Hypatius holds down the burning dragon. Beside him stands, Emperor Constantius II, crowned, gesturing. Building. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 32).