Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for March 6


Conon the Isaurian.
Conon Thaumaturgus.

Miracle worker. Martyred in Isauria. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, March 6, par. 1 (cols. 513-6).

BHG 2077-2079; BiblSS IV 152-4; Holweck 230; LCI VII 332-3.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 174. March 8. Martyr. Orant. Conon stands under a draped arch. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 35).


Martyrs Forty-Two of Amorium.

Officials of the city of Amorium in Galatia, captured during the Arab wars of Emperor Theophilus and beheaded by the Arabs in 845.

Synax.CP, March 6, par. 2 (col. 516).

Simeon Metaphrastes, March 6.

BHG 1209-1214c; BiblSS I 1018-20; Holweck 63; LCI VII 581.

Messina, San Salvatore 27, fol. 172v. Martyrs, holding crosses. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 77, figs. 2C12-2D1).

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 163. Martyrdom, beheading. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 8, fig. 33).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 30v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 17, fig. 55).

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

SEE ALSO: Arcadius of Trimithus, March 7