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MENOLOGY

Volume 13 · 78 words · 1815 Edition

Menologium, (from μήν, month, and νόστος, djourfe), is much the same as martyrology, or calendar, in the Latin.

The Greek menologium is divided into the several months in the year; and contains an abridgment of the lives of the saints, with a bare enumeration of the names of such whose lives were never written. The Greeks have various menologies; and the Romans tax them with inferring divers heretics in their menologies as saints.—Baillet treats of them at large.