On This Day: The Armenian Church Synaxarion - March [Hardcover]

The Yaysmawurk‘ is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints’ lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk‘ was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection, the Synaxarion, “where the lives are all collected.” In fact, it is common knowledge that this Greek collection was the basis for nearly all such liturgical collections of the lives of the saints throughout the early Christian world; however, it was not a mere translation. Rather, it constituted a logical culmination of a long and steady development in the Armenian Church of what scholars today like to call the “cult of the saints.” This volume in theOn This Dayseries collects the entries for March.
 

Edward G. Mathews Jr.taught at The Catholic University of America, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Seminary, University of Scranton, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Armenian Evangelical Seminary in Yerevan, and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary.
 

Introduction
 
March 1
Eudocia—Simon of Cyrene
March 2
Prophet Amos—Kononos the gardener—Smbat and 250 martyrs
March 3
Mark—Makarios
March 5
Porphyry of Gaza—Forty-two martyrs of Samara
March 7
Bishop Basil and others
March 8
Eupheosyne—Theophylactos—Constantine, son of Levon
March 9
Forty martyrs of Sebaste
March 10
Theodosia—Hesychius—Amenavag
March 11
Quadratus, Diogenes, Cyprian, Anectos, Kriskindos—Sabas
March 12
Pionius of Smyrna
March 13
Prophets Ezekial and Ezra—Ezra—Gregory of Rome
March 14
Sabinus—Cosmas and Damian
March 15
Eight martyrs—Aristobulos—Nikander
March 16
Those martyred by the Goths—Hermas, Sarapion, Paulinus
March 1l�