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 September 10

Menodora, Nymphodora and Metrodora of Bithynia.

Virgins. Three sisters martyred in Bithynia under Maximian.

Synax.CP, Sept. 10, par. 1 (cols. 31-2).

Simeon Metaphrastes, Sept. 10.

BHG 1272z-1273; BiblSS IX 352-4; Holweck 705; LCI VIII 9.

London, British Library, Add. 11870, fol. 84r. Nuns, holding crosses. The faces of the two women at the right are obliterated. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 121, fig. 3D10; Walter, "London September Metaphrast," pp. 20-1, fig. 20).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barocci 230, fol. 3v. Nuns. Hands raised. (Hutter, I, p. 50, fig. 172; Hutter, III, p. 331; Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 17, fig. 1A3).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 9r. Martyrdom, beheading. Metrodora stands at left, holding a cross; Menodora and Nymphodora are about to be beheaded. (Hutter, II, p. 4, fig. 13).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 248r. Nuns, holding crosses. (Weitzmann, "Byzantine Miniature and Icon Painting," pl. 33a [Studies, fig. 298]).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 26. Martyrdom, beating with iron bars. (BiblSS IX, fig. cols. 353-4; Menologio, I, p. 10, II, fig. p. 26).

Venice, Marciana, gr. Z 586, fol. 85v. Martyrdom, beating with iron bars. Menodora is tied to a post; Nymphodora and Metrodora have fallen to the ground. (Ševčenko, N., Metaphrastian Menologion, p. 177, fig. 5C6).

Cozia. Narthex, vault, south side. Martyrdom, beheading. Fragmentary scene. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 349, fig. 64).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, south wall. Martyrdom, beheading. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 10, fig. T II 30; Mijović, Menolog, p. 318, fig. 41, pl. 173).

Gračanica. Northeast pier, east face. Nuns, two holding crosses. Half-figures. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 287, fig. 19; Todić, Gračanica, p. 100; Živković, Gračanica, fig. VI northeast 11).

Barypsabas.

Hermit who is said to have possessed a relic of the Blood of Christ. Miracle worker. Martyr. Time and place uncertain.

Synax.CP, Sept. 10, par. 2 (cols. 32-3).

BHG 238; BiblSS II 785; DHGE VI 1057-8; Holweck 137; LCI V 312.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 9r. Barypsabas? Monk, holding cross. Half-figure. Not inscribed. (Hutter, II, p. 4 [unidentified], fig. 13).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 248r. Monk, holding cross. (Weitzmann, "Byzantine Miniature and Icon Painting," pl. 33a [Studies, fig. 298]).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 25. Martyrdom, strangling by brigands. Gourd with relic of Blood of Christ on the ground. (BiblSS II, fig. cols. 783-4; Menologio, I, p. 10, II, fig. p. 25).

Adoration of the Cross.

Synax.CP, Sept. 10, par. 5 (col. 34).

Vatican, gr. 1156, fol. 248r. Four men approach an altar draped with an altar cloth. The first bends forward and kisses a cross with double traverse lying on the altar. To the right, a bishop, holding a book, censes the altar. Behind him, three other bishops are standing; two hold books. (Walter, Art and Ritual, fig. 44; Weitzmann, "Byzantine Miniature and Icon Painting," pl. 33a [Studies, fig. 298]).