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 October 5

Charitina of Corycus.

Virgin. Martyred at Corycus in Cilicia under Diocletian.

SEE ALSO: January 15.

Synax.CP, Oct. 5, par. 1 (cols. 107-111).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 5.

BHG 299z-300; BiblSS III 791; Holweck 205; LCI V 486.

Istanbul, Greek Patriarchate, 80, fol. 30r. Animal head devouring a crowned human figure, possibly Emperor Diocletian? Initial E. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 112, fig. 6C12).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 28r. Woman saint, holding cross. (Likhachova, Byzantine Miniatures, pl. 16; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 53, fig. 6A5).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 12r. Woman saint, holding cross. Half-figure. (Hutter, II, p. 6, fig. 19).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 265v. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 92. Torture, thrown into sea. Charitina, bound, is thrown head first into a river. (Menologio, I, p. 26, II, fig. p. 92).

Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 36v. Woman saint. Initial E. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 161, fig. 4D11).

Vienna, hist. gr. 6, fol. 3v. Woman saint, holding cross. (Mazal, Byzanz und Abendland, fig. 10; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 19, figs. 1A7-8).

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

Gračanica. North aisle, southwest pilaster. Woman saint, holding cross. Three-quarter figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 291, fig. 24, pl. 125; Todić, Gračanica, p. 102; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west side).

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

Mamelta of Persia.
Mamelchta of Persia.

Martyred in Persia. 4th cen.

Synax.CP, Oct. 5, par. 2 (cols. 111-2).

BHG 2245; BiblSS VIII 613-4; Holweck 644; LCI VII 485.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 256v. Woman saint, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 91. Martyrdom, stoning. One executioner also holds a sheathed sword. (Menologio, I, p. 26, II, fig. p. 91).

Gračanica. North aisle, southwest pilaster. Woman saint, holding cross. Three-quarter figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 291, fig. 24, pl. 125; Todić, Gračanica, p. 102; Živković, Gračanica, fig. V west side).

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

Paul the Simple.

Hermit in the Thebaid. Disciple of Anthony the Great. 4th cen.

SEE ALSO: March 18.

Synax.CP, Oct. 5, par. 6 (cols. 112-4); Oct. 4, Synax. selecta (cols. 103-4).

BHG 1474q-1474u; BiblSS X 264-5; Holweck 779; LCI VIII 149.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 85. Oct. 4. Monk. Within a cave, Paul kneels, praying with hands raised toward rays emerging from an arc of Heaven. (BiblSS X, fig. cols. 265-6; Menologio, I, p. 24, II, fig. p. 85).

Gračanica. South aisle, northwest pilaster. Hermit. Wearing short monk's habit. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 291, fig. 24; Todić, Gračanica, p. 101; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV west side).