Index of Medieval Art

The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes


Calendar of Saints and Feasts for October 27


Nestor of Thessalonica.

Soldier. Martyred at Thessalonica with Demetrius under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Oct. 27, par. 1 (cols. 167-8); Oct. 26, Synax. selecta (cols. 163-4).

BiblSS IX 829-31; Holweck 734; LCI VIII 35-7.

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 226r. Oct. 26 (with Demetrius). Martyrdom, beheading. Martyr, probably Nestor. Depicted in the same miniature as the martyrdom of Demetrius; see above, Sept. 26 (1). (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 57, fig. 226r).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 14v. Martyrdom, beheading. With companions. (Hutter, II, pp. 7-8, fig. 24).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 263r. Martyr, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 141. Oct. 26. Martyrdom, beheading. Small building with colonnaded facade. (Menologio, I, p. 38, II, fig. p. 141).

Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Oct. 26 (with Demetrius). Martyr, holding cross. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 20, figs. 1A7, 1A9).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 351, fig. 62, pl. 237).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 62, fig. T III 12; Mijović, Menolog, p. 324, fig. 50).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall. Soldier. Martyrdom, beheading. Behind, a crenellated wall with a portal over which there is a tympanum with a relief of a horseman. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 267, fig. 6, pl. 35).


Capitolina and Erotheides of Cappadocia.
Erotheis of Cappadocia.

Capitolina and her maid-servant, martyred in Caesarea in Cappadocia under Diocletian.

Synax.CP, Oct. 27, par. 2 (cols. 168-9).

BHG 292; BiblSS III 763-4; Holweck 189; LCI V 471-2.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 143. Martyrdom, beheading. Behind the body of Capitolina, a barrel-vaulted church, probably her martyrium in Constantinople. Bonfire. (Menologio, I, pp. 38-9, II, fig. p. 143).

SEE ALSO: Artemidorus, Martyr, October 26