The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
in Byzantine Manuscripts and Frescoes

Calendar of Saints and Feasts for October 6

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Thomas the Apostle.

Apostle. 1st cen.

Synax.CP, Oct. 6, par. 1 (cols. 113-5).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Oct. 6.

BHG 1800-1844b; BiblSS XII 536-44; Holweck 977; LCI VIII 468-75; ODB 2076; ODCC 1369; ODS 406-7.

Istanbul, Greek Patriarchate, 80, fol. 33r. Apostle. Bust. Initial {PI}. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 112, fig. 6D1).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 31r. Apostle, holding scroll. Beardless. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 53, fig. 6A6).

Moscow, gr. 175, fol. 37v. Martyrdom, stabbing with spear. A devil stabs the beardless apostle. (Likhachova, Byzantine Miniatures, pl. 17; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 53, fig. 6A7).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 12r. Apostle, holding scroll. (Hutter, II, p. 6, fig. 19).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 256v. Apostle, holding scroll.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 93. Martyrdom, stabbing with spear. Thomas, beardless, hands raised, stands between two Indians, represented as blacks wearing turbans, holding spears. Building. (Menologio, I, p. 26, II, fig. p. 93).

Vatican, gr. 1679, fol. 40v. Apostle. Thomas is seated on top of the initial {PI}. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 162, fig. 4D12).

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

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, stabbing with spear. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 351, fig. 62, pl. 236).

Gračanica. North aisle, southwest pilaster. Apostle. Martyrdom, stabbing with spear. (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. Apostle, holding scroll. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 263, fig. 15).

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Nicetas the Patrician.
Nicetas the Confessor; Nicetas of Paphlagonia.

Monk at Chrysonike Monastery, Constantinople. Confessor during Iconoclasm under Leo V. d. 838.

Synax.CP, Oct. 6, par. 2 (cols. 115-6).

BHG Nov. Auct. 1342b-1342e; BiblSS IX 892-3; Holweck 738.

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 256v. Oct. 7. Monk, holding cross.

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 94. Monk, holding a medallion icon with the bust of Christ. Building. (BiblSS IX, fig. cols. 891-2; LCI VIII, fig. col. 43; Menologio, I, p. 26, II, fig. p. 94).

Gračanica. South aisle, northwest pilaster. Monk. Orant. Three-quarter figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 291, fig. 24; Todić, Gračanica, p. 101; Živković, Gračanica, fig. IV west side).

Staro Nagoričino. Narthex, center aisle, north wall, soffit. Oct. 7. Half-figure. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 263, fig. 15).

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