Synax.CP, Oct. 20, par. 1 (cols. 151-3).
Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 20.
BHG 169y-174e; BiblSS II 488-9; DHGE IV 790-1; Holweck 109; LCI V 253-4; ODB 194-5.
Artemius of Egypt (Artemius of Antioch). Soldier. Megalomartyr. Martyred in Antioch under Julian the Apostate.
Eugenius and Macarius of Antioch. Priests. Tortured in Antioch with Artemius, exiled to Arabia, and martyred under Julian the Apostate. Possibly the same as Eugenius and Macarius of Arabia.
Eugenius and Macarius of Arabia, SEE ALSO: December 20.
Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 122v. Artemius. Martyr, holding cross. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 56, fig. 6B9).
Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 149r. Artemius. Martyrdom, beheading. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 56, fig. 6B10).
Mount Athos, Esphigmenou 14, fol. 90r. Martyrs. 1) Eugenius and Macarius. Trial. In front of a building, Julian the Apostate, wearing crown, is seated on a faldstool. Two guards, one holding a spear, stand behind him. Eugenius and Macarius, standing in front of a column, address him with expansive gestures. 2) Eugenius and Macarius. Torture, beating with club. Building. 3) Artemius. Trial. In front of the city wall of Antioch, Julian the Apostate, wearing crown, is seated on a faldstool. Two guards stand behind him. Artemius stands before him, gesturing. 4) Eugenius and Macarius. Martyrdom, beheading. Building. (Pelekanides, Treasures, II, fig. 331).
Mount Athos, Esphigmenou 14, fol. 90v. Artemius. Martyr. 1) Arrest. A guard takes the sword from Artemius' hand and grasps him by the wrist. Building. 2) Torture, beating with club. Artemius, wearing loin cloth, lies prone, his wrists and ankles tied with ropes to pegs in the ground. Above Artemius appears the top of a gold ciborium. 3) Trial. Artemius, unharmed, stands before Julian the Apostate, crowned, seated on a faldstool. An attendant stands behind him. Building. 4) Torture, wedged in rock. Julian the Apostate, crowned, is seated on a faldstool at the left. Two guards stand behind him. Julian gives instructions to two stone masons, holding hammers and chisels. In the background, Artemius' body has been wedged into the crevice in the rock. 5) Martyrdom, beheading. (Pelekanides, Treasures, II, fig. 332).
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 14r. Artemius. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 7, fig. 23).
Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 262r. Artemius. Martyr, holding cross.
Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 126. Artemius. Martyrdom, beheading. (Menologio, I, p. 34, II, fig. p. 126).
Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 160r. Artemius. Martyr. Triumph. Artemius is seated on the crossbar of the inital M, piercing with his spear the crowned figure, probably Julian the Apostate, prostrate at his feet. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 163, fig. 4E12; Walter,"Triumph of the Martyrs," fig. 4).
Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Artemius. Martyr, holding cross. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 19, figs. 1A7, 1A9).
Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom. Damaged scene. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 351, fig. 62, pl. 236).
Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Artemius. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 55, fig. T II 27; Mijović, Menolog, p. 324, fig. 41, pl. 188).
Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Artemius. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 265, fig. 15, pl. 32).
Disciples of Paul the Apostle. Three of the Seventy Apostles. 1st cen.
Synax.CP, Oct. 20, par. 2 (cols. 153-4).
Tertius of Iconium (Terentius of Iconium). Bishop of Iconium in Lycaonia.
SEE ALSO: November 10, June 22.
BiblSS XII 432-3; Holweck 951; LCI VIII 423.
Mark, Nephew of Barnabas. Bishop of Apollonia in Bithynia or in Lydia. Possibly the same as Mark the Evangelist.
Fedalto 97, 181; Holweck 662.
Justus of Eleutheropolis. Bishop of Eleutheropolis in Palestine I.
Fedalto 1020; LCI VII 257.
Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Bishops, two holding books. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 265, fig. 15, pl. 32).
The first pagan baptized by Peter the Apostle (Acts 10). Soldier. According to Byzantine tradition, he became bishop of Scepis in Hellespontus, and was martyred. 1st cen.
SEE ALSO: September 13.
Synax.CP, Oct. 20, Synax. selecta (cols. 152-3).
Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 125. Bishop. 1) Destroying pagan temple; breaking idols. Cornelius praying as the stones of the temple fall on the wife and son of the prefect. Two idols (statues of nude male divinities, one holding spear) fall to the ground. 2). Death. Cornelies lies on a bier, book on his chest, in his tomb. (LCI VII, fig. col. 342; Menologio, I, p. 34, II, fig. p. 125; Ševčenko, I., "Illuminators of the Menologium of Basil II," fig. 4).
SEE ALSO: Andrew of Crisis, October 19