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 5

Galaction and Episteme of Phoenicia.

Husband and wife. Hermits. Martyred at Emesa in Phoenicia under Decius.

Synax.CP, Nov. 5, par. 1 (cols. 193-5).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 5.

BHG 665-6; BiblSS V 1356-9; Holweck 411; LCI VI 342-3.

London, British Library, Add. 36636, fol. 34v. Initial T. Martyr and woman saint, holding crosses, standing behind a high wall. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 127, fig. 3F3).

Mount Sinai, gr. 500, fol. 77r. Galaction. Monk, holding cross. Episteme. Nun, holding cross. Damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 65, fig. 1G5; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 76, fig. 204).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 16r. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 8, fig. 27).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 264v. Galaction. Martyr, holding cross. Episteme. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 161. Martyrdom, dismemberment. Galaction, nude, arms and legs already cut off, is about to be beheaded. The body of Episteme, wearing loin cloth, lies on the ground. Her head, arms and legs have been severed from her torso. (BiblSS V, fig. col. 1357-8; Menologio, I, p. 43, II, fig. p. 161).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, north side. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 352, fig. 63).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 72, fig. T IV 31; Mijović, Menolog, p. 325, fig. 42, pls. 183, 194).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Nov. 6. Martyr and woman saint, holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 15).

Domninus of Emesa.

Martyred with companions at Emesa in Phoenicia or at Caesarea in Palestine under Maximin Daia.

Synax.CP, Nov. 5, par. 1 (cols. 195-7).

BHG 1193; BiblSS IV 812-3; Holweck 289; LCI VI 84.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 162. Martyrdom, beheading. Domninus is about to be beheaded. The bodies and severed head of three of his co-martyrs lie on the ground. Another group of co-martyrs stand at the left.(BiblSS IV, fig. cols. 813-4; Menologio, I, p. 43, II, fig. p. 162).