The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for November 18

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Plato of Ancyra.

Martyred at Ancyra in Galatia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Nov. 18, par. 1 (cols. 233-5).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 18.

BiblSS X 959-61; Holweck 820; LCI VIII 215-7.

Copenhagen, GKS fol. 167, fol. 27r. Martyr, holding cross. Damaged. (Mackeprang, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, pl. III; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 58, fig. 1E10).

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 48v. Martyr, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 89, fig. 2G2).

Mount Athos, Lavra {D} 71, fol. 45r. Martyr, holding cross. (Pelekanides, Treasures, III, fig. 118; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 102, fig. 3C1).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17v. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 9, fig. 30).

Paris, gr. 580, fol. 2v. Martyr, holding cross. (Omont, Miniatures, p. 50, pl. 102; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 20, fig. 1A12).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268r. Martyr, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 189. Martyrdom, beheading. Plato wears loin cloth. (Menologio, I, p. 51, II, fig. p. 189).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 86, fig. T II 39; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326, fig. 41, pls. 201-202).

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Romanus and Barulas of Antioch.

Romanus, a deacon, martyred with a boy named Barulas at Antioch under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Nov. 18, pars. 2-3 (cols. 235-6).

BHG 1600y-1602; BiblSS XI 338-42; Holweck 864-5; LCI VIII 281; ODCC 1197-8.

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 321r. Romanus. Apostle. Orant. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 92, fig. 3A10).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17v. Romanus and Barulas. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 9, fig. 30).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268r. Romanus. Deacon, holding censer and pyxis.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 190. 1) Barulas. Martyrdom, beheading. Barulas, wearing a patterned tunic, is about to be beheaded. The head of his mother is visible, as she watches from behind a rock. 2) Romanus. In prison. Martyrdom, strangulation. Romanus, seated within prison walls, is strangled with a rope pulled by two executioners. (Menologio, I, p. 51, II, fig. p. 190).

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