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 2

Acindynus, Pegasius, Anempodistus, Elpidephorus and Aphthonius of Persia.

Martyred in Persia under Shapur II.

Synax.CP, Nov. 2, par. 1 (cols. 187-90).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 2.

BHG 21-23a; BiblSS I 159, IV 1146; Holweck 11; LCI V 23.

St. Petersburg, GPB gr. 373, fol. 1v. Five martyrs, holding crosses. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 64, fig. 1G2); Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 75, fig. 201).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 15v. Pegasius and companions. Martyrdom, burning in furnace; beheading. Four martyrs standing in a flaming furnace. Below, a fifth is beheaded. (Hutter, II, p. 8, fig. 26).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 264r. Three martyrs, holding crosses. (BiblSS I, fig. cols. 151-2).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 155. Martyrdom, drowning; beheading; burning in furnace. The bodies of Acindynus and Pegasius are floating in the water; an executioner is about to throw Anempodistus in head first. Elpidelphorus is about to be beheaded; the bodies and severed heads of Aphthonius and a co-martyr lie on the ground. A large group of co-martyrs stand in a flaming furnace. Above, the arc of Heaven. (Menologio, I, pp. 41-2, II, fig. p. 155).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 351, fol. 8r. Initial E. Three standing martyrs, wounds on chests, in upright bar; two fallen figures in the base of the letter. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 170, figs. 4G2-3).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, north side. Five martyrs standing within a polygonal wall. (Mijović, Menolog, pp. 351-352, fig. 63, pl. 240).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, beheading. The inscription names Agathonicus rather than Aphthonius. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 69, fig. T IV 18; Mijović, Menolog, p. 324, fig. 42).

Atticus, Eudoxius, Agapius and companions of Sebaste.

Soldiers. Martyred at Sebaste in Armenia under Licinius.

Synax.CP, Nov. 2, par. 2 (col. 190).

BiblSS III 888-9; Holweck 116, 191; LCI V 274.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 156. Martyrs. Martyrdom, burning in furnace. Atticus, Eudoxius, Agapius and a large group of co-martyrs stand in a flaming furnace. (Menologio, I, p. 42, II, fig. p. 156).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, impost. Atticus and Eudokia (instead of Eudoxius). Gender confusion. Martyr and woman saint, holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 267, fig. 7, pl. 41).