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Definition of Menaia

Menaia
Menaion Me*na"ion, n.; pl. Menaia (-y[*a]). [NL., from Gr. ? monthly.] (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. --Shipley.

Meaning of Menaia from wikipedia

- The Menaion (Gr****: Μηναῖον; Slavonic: Минїѧ, Miniya, "of the month") is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church containing the propers...
- the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; for the liturgical books (also known as the menaia) used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches following...
- Philemon was a wealthy Christian and a minister (possibly a bishop). The Menaia of 22 November speak of Philemon as a holy apostle who, in company with...
- nearest equivalent to the martyrology are the Synaxaria and the longer Menaia, both sometimes known as Menologia. Simple martyrologies only enumerate...
- synaxarion is not now used as a separate book; it is incorporated in the Menaia. The account of the saint or feast is read in the Orthros after the sixth...
- August". Archived from the original on 2013-05-26. Retrieved 2013-08-12. "The Menaia – 15 AugustCommemoration of the Falling Asleep of our Most Holy Lady...
- travels aided by angels. Alban Butler says that the reputed acts in the Gr**** Menaia are quite unreliable and no evidence is forthcoming of any cultus of early...
- Irmologion (Gr****: τὸ εἱρμολόγιον heirmologion) is a liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the...
- account or bios and the panegyric or enkomion); hagiographic collections (the menaia and synaxaria), epistolography, rhetoric, and poetry. From the Byzantine...
- By Alexander Soldatov, Novaya Gazeta. Translated by Linden Marno-Ferree Menaia: an example of hymnographyc literature and a tool to shape the orthodox...