menaion

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) The annual fixed liturgical cycle of services used in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, containing a list of the services and large collection of liturgical texts for an entire month. Twelve volumes are usually offered for the year, as a set known as the menaia.

Synonyms

 * Menologium, menology

Derived terms

 * General Menaion - a book which contains services for each type of celebration (apostles, martyrs, etc.) with blank spaces for the name of the saint being celebrated.
 * Festal Menaion - an anthology which contains the texts for those Great Feasts of the Lord or the Theotokos which fall on the fixed cycle, and optionally feasts of the major saints.

Translations

 * Greek: Μηναίον
 * Old Church Slavonic: Минеѧ
 * Polish: Mineja
 * Russian: Минея