Menaeon

Greek Menaeon for January, Venice 1552

Meneans (May), Church Slavonic, second half of the 12th century, Novgorod , St. Sophia Cathedral

Menea (for half a year), icon, 19th century

A Menäon ( ancient Greek Μηναῖον Menaĩon , Neo Latin Menäum , plur. Menäen , monthly ) is a liturgical book of the Orthodox Churches with texts for each day in the unchangeable cycle of the church year . The texts are summarized in twelve volumes. Each volume corresponds to a whole month. The first month is September.

Icons

The term Menaeon is also used for the icons of saints whose feast days fall in a specific month. Many churches have an icon for each month of the year, or a large icon for all twelve months of the year.

See also

• Old Slavic Menea
• Saint calendar
• Synaxarion
• Triodion

literature

• Menaeon. In: Religion in the past and present: concise dictionary for theology and religious studies , UTB, Stuttgart.
• Roman Krivko: A Typology of Byzantine Office Menaia of the 11th - 14th cc. In: Scrinium. Journal of Patrology, Critical Hagiography, and Ecclesiastical History 7-8 (2012) 3-68.

Web links

• ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΑ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ - Original texts in Greek