commemoration

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    For churches that have retained a synaxarium: how many entries per day?

    I'm just curious if there is any kind of upper limit to the number of commemorations on a given day in the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and other more traditional churches which have kept alive a traditional synaxarium. Usually in the morning I will check the day's Coptic synaxarium readings, and...
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    Treatment of the Diptych(s)

    [By this, of course, I mean the diptychs in a liturgical setting, not the common art term for icons and paintings set in a diptych (two-fold) arrangement.] The diptych was once a literal object kept in the local church, made of wax tablets onto which the names of the living and departed...
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    First Anniversary of the Bus Attack on Coptic Christians in El Minya -- May 26, 2017

    Let us remember the martyrs of the attack on the bus of Coptic Orthodox pilgrims in El Minya, Egypt one year ago today. 28 people were martyred, and many more were injured. None renounced their faith in the face of death. They were en route to the monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor (Samuel of...
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