Abstract:
The author argues that the Canon for a Confessor
of the Faith attested in the modern Old Church Slavonic General Menaion (Moscow,
2010) is not an original composition, but rather a compilation of Byzantine Greek
hymns used in their Old Church Slavonic translation. The hymns were mostly taken
from the canons which had been originally compiled for commemoration of St Ephrem
the Syrian (28 January: 9 hymns), St Prokopios Dekapolites the Confessor (27 February:
5 hymns), St Charalampos of Magnesia (10 February: 3 hymns), St Basil of Ancyra
(22 March: 3 hymns), St Metrophanes of Constantinople (4 June: 3 hymns), St Isidore
of Pelusium (4 February: 2 hymns), St Onesimus the Apostle (15 February: 1 hymn),
St Bukolus of Smyrna (6 February: 1 hymn), as well as a tetraode from the Pentekostarion
(1 hymn) and at least one unknown hymnographic source (4 hymns).
