The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for November 7

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Hieron of Melitene; Thirty-Three Martyrs of Melitene.

Soldier. Martyred with Hesychius, Nicander and 30 companions at Melitene in Armenia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Nov. 7, par. 1 (cols. 199-201).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Nov. 7.

BHG 749-750; BiblSS VI 268-9; Holweck 481; LCI VI 518.

London, British Library, Add. 36636, fol. 48v. Hieron and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. Initial I. The bust of Hieron, orant, appears on top of a column. The executioner with raised sword stands inside the column base; at the left is a mound of severed heads. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 127, fig. 3F5).

Mount Sinai, gr. 500, fol. 92v. Triumph. Hieron brandishes a club at his enemies, while the half-figure of an angel appears in the sky. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 65, fig. 1G7; Weitzmann and Galavaris, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, I, p. 76, fig. 206).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 16r. Hieron and companions. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, pp. 8-9, fig. 27).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 266r. Thirty-Three Martyrs of Melitene. Five martyrs, holding crosses.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 166. Martyrdom, beheading. Hieron, wearing loin cloth, is about to be beheaded. The bodies and severed heads of Hesychius and Nicander lie on the ground. Two groups of co-martyrs, some wearing brocaded tunics, stand at right and left. (Menologio, I, pp. 44-5, II, fig. p. 166).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 351, fol. 82v. Initial I. Executioner with sword. Damaged. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 171, figs. 4G12-5A1).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, north side. Hieron and co-martyrs?¹⁰⁸ Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, fig. 63).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Hieron. Martyr, holding cross. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 269, fig. 6).

¹⁰⁸ Inscription destroyed. Not identified by Mijović, p. 352.

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Melasippus, Cassina and Anthony of Ancyra.

Melasippus and Cassina, martyred with their son Anthony, at Ancyra in Galatia under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, Nov. 7, par. 3 (cols. 201-2).

BiblSS IX 290-1; Holweck 700; LCI VII 628.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 165. 1) Melasippus and Cassina. Torture, suspension. Martyrdom, dismemberment. Melasippus, legs cut off, and Cassina, breasts cut off, both wearing loincloths, hang from a pole by their bound wrists. Block and axe on the ground. 2) Anthony. Martyrdom, beheading. Anthony wears loin cloth. (Menologio, I, p. 44, II, fig. p. 165).

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Auctus, Taurion and Thessalonica of Amphipolis.

Martyred at Amphipolis in Macedonia at an unknown time.

Synax.CP, Nov. 7, par. 4 (cols. 202-4).

BiblSS II 637; Holweck 117; LCI V 291.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 167. 1) Thessalonica. Praying. Thessalonica, wearing brocade mantle, prays toward rays emerging from arc of Heaven. 2) Auctus and Taurion. Martyrdom, beheading. Both wear loin cloths. City of Amphipolis; a domed church within the walls. In the foreground, a reliquary casket. (Menologio, I, p. 45, II, fig. p. 167).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. 1) Thessalonica. Woman saint, holding cross. Half-figure. 2) Auctus and Taurion. Torture, crucifixion, shot with arrows. Auctus and Taurion are bound to crosses, while two torturers shoot at them with bows and arrows. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 74, fig. T IV 33; Mijović, Menolog, p. 325, fig. 42, pls. 183, 194).

SEE ALSO: Matrona of Constantinople, November 9

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