Menologia
Menologia are liturgical texts in Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian usage that list saints and feast days. The term comes from the Greek menologion, meaning a monthly record or list of commemorations. A menologion typically presents a calendar arranged by day or month, with notices or brief hagiographies of the saints whose feasts occur on those dates, and sometimes accompanying readings or liturgical instructions for those days.
Manuscript and early printed forms of menologia vary in scope. Some cover the entire liturgical year, while
Notable examples include the Menologion of Basil II, an illuminated manuscript commissioned around the turn of
In contemporary scholarship, the term is primarily used to describe historical or scholarly discussions of Byzantine