Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 29


Theodosia of Tyre.

Virgin. Martyred at Caesarea in Palestine under Maximin Daia.

Synax.CP, May 29, par. 1 (cols. 713-5).

BHG 1775-1778b; BiblSS XII 286-8; Holweck 964; LCI VIII 453-4.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 41v. Martyrdom, drowning. (Hutter, II, p. 24, fig. 77).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, center bay, vault. Martyrdom, drowning. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 243, fig. T V 3; Mijović, Menolog, p. 338, fig. 49; Petković, Dečani, p. 18, pl. CXXVII).

Gračanica. Narthex, south aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, drowning. Greek inscription. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 301, fig. 27; Todić, Gračanica, p. 103; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV south wall 17).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Martyrdom, drowning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 279, fig. 8, pl. 80).