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Synaxarion, Synaxarium or Synaxary (plurals Synaxaria, Synaxaries; Greek: Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, synagein, "to bring together"; cf. etymology of synaxis

each and largely concerned with saints; for hagiographies (also known as synaxaria) and liturgical calendars written as part of this tradition; and for equivalents

Eastern Orthodox Church, the nearest equivalent to the martyrology are the Synaxaria and the longer Menaia, both sometimes known as Menologia. Simple martyrologies

Mount Olympus known only from the Synaxarion of Constantinople and other synaxaria, was supposed to have been 95 years old when he was tortured for his iconodulism

Georgian, Circassian, Cossack and Chetnik military tradition. Christian synaxaria hold that Saint George was a martyr who died for his faith. On icons,

Apostle in traditional Orthodox Synaxaria does not directly mention Saint Ephigenia by name, although the Synaxaria do record Saint Matthew's travels

Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar"). Some Synaxaria also insert the memory of Venerable Anastasia the Ascetic here. "In Persia

Sofianos Z. Dimitrios, The Hosios Athanasios the Meteorite: Life, sequence, synaxaria. Prolegomena, translation of the Life, critical edition of texts, ed.

translated the Fathers of the Church, the Psalms, works of exegesis and synaxaria from Greek – some things which had not previously existed in Georgian

Nicholas of Myra and Euphrosyne the Younger. He also wrote many of the synaxaria in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church. "Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos