Menaion

Eastern Orthodoxy

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The Menaion is a collection of hymns and collects used in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is arranged in calendar order and typically divided into 12 volumes, one for each month. Each volume contains the proper services for the immovable feasts of Christ or the saints celebrated during that month.1

A related text is the Menologion, which is an ecclesiastical calendar and a shorter martyrology of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It can be considered an abbreviated version of the complete Menaion. The word "Menaion" comes from the Greek word for "monthly".21

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…fixed holy days in the Menaion (liturgical service book for each month) begins on September 1, the New Year’s or Indiction Day of the Byzantine Empire. It includes the invariable feasts of Christ, St. Mary and other Christian saints, and many Old Testament saints.
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…fixed holy days in the Menaion (liturgical service book for each month) begins on September 1, the New Year’s or Indiction Day of the Byzantine Empire. It includes the invariable feasts of Christ, St. Mary and other Christian saints, and many Old Testament saints.
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