The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for October 4

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Hierotheus of Athens.

Said to be the first bishop of Athens and the teacher of Dionysius the Areopagite. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, Oct. 4, par. 1 (col. 103).

BHG 751; BiblSS VI 275-6; Holweck 481; LCI VI 530.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 12r. Bishop. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 6, fig. 19).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 256v. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 88. Bishop, holding book. Colonnaded building, decorated with shells and leaf masks. (BiblSS VI, fig. cols. 275-6; LCI VI, fig. col. 530; Menologio, I, p. 25, II, fig. p. 88).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Bishop. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 350, fig. 62, pl. 236).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Monk, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 263, fig. 15).

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Dometius the Physician.
Dometius of Persia.

Monk. Physician. Martyred under Julian the Apostate.

Synax.CP, Oct. 4, par. 3 (col. 103).

BiblSS IV 745-6; Holweck 284; LCI VI 71.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 89. Monk. Torture, beating with clubs. Two disciples have fallen, bleeding, to the ground. One of the executioners holds a sheathed sword as well as a club. (Menologio, I, p. 25, II, fig. p. 89).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Torture, stoning. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 263, fig. 15).

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Adauctus of Ephesus.

Martyred at Melitene in Armenia or in Mesopotamia under Maximin Daia.

Synax.CP, Oct. 4, par. 4 (cols. 104-5).

BiblSS I 230; DHGE I 511; Holweck 15; LCI V 31.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 83. Adauctus. 1) Martyrdom, beheading. 2) Burial. Adautus' wife and daughter Callisthene place his body, wrapped in winding sheet, in a sarcophagus decorated with arcade and relief of nude man holding spear and shield. (Menologio, I, p. 24, II, fig. p. 83).

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Peter of Capitolias.

Priest. Martyred by the Arabs. d. early 8th cen.

Synax.CP, Oct. 4, par. 5 (cols. 105-6).

BiblSS X 676-80; Holweck 799; LCI VIII 179.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 256v. Bishop, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 84. Bishop. Torture, crucifixion. Martyrdom, beheading. Peter's hands are nailed to a cross with suppedaneum. An executioner, standing on a wooden platform behind the cross, is about to behead him. (Menologio, I, p. 24, II, fig. p. 84).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Martyrdom, beheading. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 263, fig. 15).

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Ammon of Nitria.

Hermit. Founder of monasteries in the Nitrian desert in Egypt. d. ca. 350.

Synax.CP, Oct. 4, par. 10 (cols. 107-8).

BiblSS I 1014-5; DHGE II 1309-10; Holweck 62; LCI V 123.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 90. Monk. 1) Death. The body of Ammon is lying on a mat, behind which are standing two mourning monks, one swinging a censer. 2) Soul borne to Heaven. Anthony the Great, wearing a hooded monk's habit, barefoot, looks upwards at two half-figures of angels carrying aloft the swaddled soul of Ammon. At upper right, starry arc of Heaven. (LCI V, fig. col. 124; Menologio, I, pp. 25-6, II, fig. p. 90).

Gračanica. South aisle, northwest pilaster. Monk, holding scroll. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 291, fig. 24; Todić, Gračanica, p. 101; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV west side).

SEE ALSO:
Dionysius of Alexandria and companions, October 3
Paul the Simple, October 5

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