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The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 22 April *Theodoros (ascetic and abbot of Sykeon, ob. 613, S01619), all patriarchs, bishops, priests and deacons, and Vincent and Styphanis, unidentified figures, and *Theodoros (soldier and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita, S00480).

Evidence ID

E03717

Type of Evidence

Liturgical texts - Calendars and martyrologies

Major author/Major anonymous work

Calendar of Ioane Zosime

კბ. მამისა ჩ(უე)ნისა ალქამადრიკისი სკეულელისი, და ექუსთა კრ(ე)ბათა საჴს(ე)ნ(ე)ბ(ე)ლი, და ჴს(ე)ნ(ე)ბ(ა)ჲ ყ(ოვე)ლთა წ(მიდა)\თა პა(ტრია)ქთაჲ და ეპ(ის)კ(ოპო)სთაჲ მღდ(ე)ლთ(ა)ჲ და დ(ია)\კ(ო)ნთაჲ, და ბიკენტისი და სტ(ე)ფ(ა)ნიდჱსი, და თე(ვდორ)ჱსივე .

22 April. Our father, the Sykeote archimandrite, and commemoration of six councils, and commemoration of all holy patriarchs and bishops, priests and deacons and Vincent and Stephanis and Theodoros.

Text: Garitte 1958, 57-63; Electronic text: Gippert 2017, http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/liturg/iozosca2/iozos.htm (26.12.17); Translation: N. Aleksidze.

Liturgical Activities

Service for the saint

Festivals

Saint’s feast

Bibliography


Edition:

Garitte, G. (ed.), Le Calendrier Palestino-Géorgien du Sinaiticus 34 (Xe siècle) (Subsidia Hagiographica 30; Brussels: Societé des Bollandistes, 1958).

Other Edition:

Kekelidze, K. (ed.) იოანე ქართველის კალენდარი [The Calendar of Ioane the Georgian], in:
Etiudebi 5, 248-294 (Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1957).

Electronic Edition:

Gippert, J. (ed.) იოანე ზოსიმეს კალენდარი. [The Calendar of Ioane Zosime]. On the basis of the edition in G. Garitte, Le Calendrier Palestino-Géorgien du Sinaiticus 34 (Xe siècle), electronically prepared by Sopio Papiashvili, Tbilisi 2017; TITUS version by Jost Gippert, Franfurt a/M, 24.9.2017.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcg/cauc/ageo/liturg/iozosca2/iozos.htm

Further Reading:


Buchinger, H., "Das Jerusalemer Sanctorale: Zu Stand und Aufgaben der Forschung," in: M. Barnard, P. Post, and E. Rose (eds.),
A Cloud of Witnesses: The Cult of Saints in Past and Present (Liturgia Condenda 18; Leuven: Peeters, 2005), 97-128 (GL on pp. 110-113).

Froyshov, S., “The Georgian Witness to the Jerusalem Liturgy: New Sources and Studies,” in: B. Groen, S. Hawkes-Teeples, and S. Alexopoulos (eds.),
Inquiries into Eastern Christian Worship: Selected Papers of the Second International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy Rome, 17-21 September 2008 (Leuven: Peeters, 2012), 227-69.

Galadza, D.,
Liturgy and Byzantinisation in Jerusalem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Galadza, D., "The Jerusalem Lectionary and the Byzantine Rite," in: B. Groen, D. Galadza, N. Glibetic, and G. Radle (eds.)
Rites and Rituals of the Christian East (Eastern Christian Studies 22; Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 181–199.

Garitte, G.,
Le Calendrier Palestino-Géorgien du Sinaiticus 34 (Xe siècle) (Brussels: Societé des Bollandistes, 1958).

Kekelidze, K. Иерусалимский Канонарь [The Canonbook of Jerusalem] (Tbilisi: Losaberidze, 1912).

Verhelst, S., "La liturgie de Jérusalem à l'époque byzantine. Genèse et structure de l'année liturgique." PhD Dissertation, Jerusalem, 1999.

Verhelst, S., "Les lieux de station du lectionnaire de Jérusalem. 1
ère partie: Les villages et fondations," Proche-Orient chrétien 54 (2004), 13-70.

Verhelst, S.,
Les traditions judéo-chrétiennes dans la liturgie de Jérusalem, spécialement la Liturgie de saint Jacques Frère de Dieu (Leuven: Peeters, 2003).

Verhelst, S., "The Liturgy of Jerusalem in the Byzantine Period," in: O. Limor and G. Stroumsa (eds.),
Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdom (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 421-462.


Record Created By

Nikoloz Aleksidze

Date of Entry

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S01619Theodoros, ascetic and abbot of Sykeon, ob. 613 თევდორეCertain


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