Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 12


Epiphanius of Salamis.

Bishop of Salamis (Constantia), Cyprus, 376-403.

SEE ALSO: July 14.

Synax.CP, May 12, par. 1 (cols. 675-7).

BHG 596-601m; BiblSS IV 1258-64; Fedalto 875; Holweck 325; LCI VI 154-5; ODB 714; ODCC 464-5.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 39v. Bishop, holding book. Three-quarter figure. (Hutter, II, p. 23, fig. 73).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west bay, vault. Bishop. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 227, fig. T VI 1; Mijović, Menolog, p. 338, fig. 46; Petković, Dečani, p. 17).

Gračanica. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 299, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).


ermanus I of Constantinople.

Bishop of Cyzicus in Hellespontus. Patriarch of Constantinople, 715-730. Confessor during Iconoclasm under Leo III the Isaurian. d. in exile in 733.

Synax.CP, May 12, par. 3 (cols. 677-80).

BHG 697-697e; BiblSS VI 243-53; DHGE XX 906-7; Fedalto 5; Holweck 420-1; LCI VI 401; Nicol 44; ODB 846-7; ODCC 561.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 39v. Germanus? Bishop, holding book. (Hutter, II, p. 23 [unidentified], fig. 73).

Gračanica. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion, holding book. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 299, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).