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menology

[ mi-nol-uh-jee ]

noun

plural menologies.
  1. a calendar of the months.
  2. a record or account, as of saints, arranged in the order of a calendar.


menology

/ ɪˈɒəɪ /

noun

  1. an ecclesiastical calendar of the months
  2. Eastern Churches a liturgical book containing the lives of the saints arranged by months
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of menology1

1600–10; < New Latin ŧԴDZDzܳ < Late Greek ŧԴDZóDz. See meno-, -logy
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of menology1

C17: from New Latin ŧԴDZDzܳ, from Late Greek ŧԴDZDzDz, from Greek ŧ month + logos word, account
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In the eulogy of him in the Cistercian Menology it is said, “that he was remarkable for his sanctity and wonderful miracles, and that next to St. Malachy, he was regarded by the Irish nation as one of its principal patrons,” even down to the time that that was written, A.D.

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Menology, mē-nol′o-ji, n. a register of months: a list or calendar of martyrs, with festivals celebrated, &c.

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A Russian painting upon a shell, representing a female saint called S. Parasceve, ἡ ἁγια Παρασκευη, who is found in the Greek Menology, but whose history is believed by the Bollandists to be a pious fiction.

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Garnet’s name was included in the list of the 353 Roman Catholic martyrs sent to Rome from England in 1880, and in the 2nd appendix of the Menology of England and Wales compiled by order of the cardinal archbishop and the bishops of the province of Westminster by R. Stanton in 1887, where he is styled “a martyr whose cause is deferred for future investigation.”

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The Menology is unfortunately defective after 9th November.

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