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SYNAXARIUM (Gr. ovvaE&pcov, from ovv&See also:yew, to bring together) , the name given in the See also:Greek See also:Church to a compilation corresponding very closely to the See also:martyrology (q.v.) of the See also:Roman Church. There are two kinds of synaxaria—See also:simple synaxaria, which are merely lists of the See also:saints arranged in the See also:order of their anniversaries, e.g. the See also:calendar of Morcelli; and See also:historical synaxaria, which give See also:biographical notices besides, e.g. the menology of See also:Basil and the synaxarium of See also:Sirmond. The notices given in the historical synaxaria are summaries of those in the See also:great menologies, or collections of lives of saints, for the twelve months of the See also:year. The See also:oldest historical synaxaria apparently go back to the tenth See also:century. The heterodox Eastern churches also have their synaxaria. The publication of the Arabic See also:text of the synaxarium or the Church of See also:Alexandria was started simultaneously by J. Forget in the Corp. script. orient. and by R. See also:Basset in the Patrologia orient., and that of the Ethiopian synaxarium was begun by I. See also:Guidi in the Patrologia orient. The Armenian synaxarium, called thesynaxarium of Ter See also:Israel was published at See also:Constantinople in 1834. S. A.

Morcelli, Kalendarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (See also:

Rome, 1788) ; H. Delehaye, " Le Synaxaire de Sirmond," in Analecta bollandiana, xiv. 396-434, where the terminology is explained; idem, Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e codice Sirmondiano (See also:Brussels, 1902), forming the See also:volume Propylaeum ad acta sanctorum novembris. (H.

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