Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for May 5


Pelagia of Tarsus.

Virgin. Martyred at Tarsus under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: October 8.

Synax.CP, May 5, par. 1 (cols. 659-60); May 4, Synax. selecta (cols. 659-60).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 38v. May 4. Martyrdom, burning in brazen bull. (Hutter, II, p. 22, fig. 71).


Euthymius of Madytus.

Bishop of Madytus in Europa, Thrace. Miracle worker. Late 10th cen.

Synax.CP, May 5, Synax. selecta (cols. 659-60).

BHG 654; BiblSS V 333-4; DHGE XVI 62-3; Fedalto 289; Holweck 351.

SEE ALSO: Irene of Constantinople, May 4