Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 14


Isidore of Chios.

Soldier. Martyred on Chios under Decius.

Synax.CP, May 14, par. 1 (cols. 683-4).

BHG 960-961f; BiblSS VII 960-8; Holweck 514; LCI VII 11.

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west bay, vault. Martyrdom, beheading.48 Fragmentary scene. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 222, fig. T VI 1).

Gračanica. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 299, fig. 28; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).

SEE ALSO: Alexander of Drizipara, May 13

48 Identified by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 228, on the basis of a new reading of the inscribed name of Isidore.