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 6

Paul the Confessor.
Paul I of Constantinople.

Bishop of Constantinople, 337-351 (with interruptions).

Synax.CP, Nov. 6, par. 1 (cols. 197-8).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 6.

BHG 1472-1473h; BiblSS X 286-93; Fedalto 3; Holweck 781; LCI VIII 146; ODB 1605; ODCC 1052.

London, British Library, Add. 36636, fol. 42r. Triumph. Initial H. Emperor Constantius, wearing crown, stands in profile, grasping the right upright. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 127, fig. 3F4).

Mount Sinai, gr. 500, fol. 86r. Bishop, holding book. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 65, fig. 1G6; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 76, fig. 205).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 16r. Bishop. Martyrdom, strangulation. Paul, orant, is strangled with his own omophorion. (Hutter, II, p. 8, fig. 27).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 265r. Bishop, holding book.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 163. Bishop. Martyrdom, strangulation. Paul is strangled with his own omophorion. Basilican church, cross on gable. (Menologio, I, pp. 43-4, II, fig. p. 163).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 351, fol. 76v. Triumph. Initial H. Emperor Constantius, wearing crown, stands in profile, grasping the right upright. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, pp. 170-1, figs. 4G10-4G11).

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

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Bishop, wearing polystavrion. Martyrdom, strangulation. Paul is strangled with his own omophorion. Centralized church, cross on dome. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 73, fig. T IV 32; Mijović, Menolog, p. 325, fig. 42, pls. 183, 194).

Rain of Cinders, Constantinople, ca. 466.

Miraculous rain of cinders which occurred in Constantinople, ca. 466.

Synax.CP, Nov. 6, par. 2 (cols. 198-9).

LCI VI 159.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 164. Rain of burning cinders falls from a cloud above a group of people, gesturing. Building. (Menologio, I, p. 44, II, fig. p. 164).