menologium

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1. A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and

   The Roman farming menologia show the astrological information and religious festivals for each month along with their matching agricultural activities.

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   The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January.

   1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169

   1. capitalizedoftenEastern OrthodoxySynonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.

      Synonyms: menaion

   2. capitalizedoftenEastern OrthodoxySynonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.

      Synonyms: synaxarium

   3. Eastern OrthodoxySynonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.

      Synonyms: kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings

   4. capitalizedoftenCatholicismA work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
   5. capitalizedoftenuncommonCatholicismSynonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.

      Synonyms: martyrology

2. historicalSynonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.

   Synonyms: menologem

1. Alternative letter-case form of menologium, particularly in reference to (Eastern Orthodoxy) specific editions of the menaia or synaxaria or (Roman Catholicism) biographical records of members of religious orders.

   The Menologium of Basil II is an important work for understanding the medieval Byzantine church.

   Synonyms: Menologion