Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Introduction Calendar Abbreviations List of Iconographical Motifs List of Iconographical Scenes List of Feasts

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for November 19

Obadiah.
Abdias.

Prophet.

Synax.CP, Nov. 19, par. 1 (cols. 235-6).

BHG 1b-1d; BiblSS I 44-8; Holweck 3; LCI I 4-5, V 5; ODCC 987-8.

Mount Athos, Dochiariou 5, fol. 328v. Prophet, holding open scroll. Damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 92).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17v. Prophet, holding closed scroll. (Hutter, II, pp. 9-10, fig. 30).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 268r. Prophet, holding closed scroll.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 192. Prophet, holding closed scroll. Building decorated with shell lunettes. (Menologio, I, p. 52, II, fig. p. 192).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Obadiah? Standing figure. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 87, fig. T II 40; Mijović, Menolog, p. 326).

Azas of Isauria.
Azas Thaumaturgus; Azes of Isauria.

Soldier. Martyred with his wife and daughter and 150 soldiers under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Nov. 19, par. 3 (cols. 237-8).

BHG 2052; BiblSS II 668-9; DHGE V 1340; LCI V 300; Holweck 126.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 17v. Azas and companions? Martyrdom, beheading. Not inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 10 [unidentified], fig. 30).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 191. Azas and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. At left, Azas' daughter is about to be beheaded. His wife, bound, wearing a patterned tunic, stands waiting. The bodies and severed heads of five co-martyrs lie on the ground. At right, Azas is about to be beheaded. On hillside, a marble column. (Menologio, I, pp. 51-2, II, fig. p. 191).