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438 on November 21, her Conception on December 9, two Holy Rood days, the memory of various apparitions of our Lord and feasts of the Church), and saints' days, of which they have a great number, including many Armenian saints. A good idea of the Armenian Church is special feasts in memory of the Councils of Nicæa (Saturday after the third Sunday after the Dormitio B.M.V.), Constantinople I (Saturday after Sexagesima), and Ephesus (Saturday after the fourth Sunday after Transfiguration). Their Lent (Karasnortk) lasts forty-eight days before Easter; the week after the tenth Sunday before Easter is a fast (called Aratshavoratz), also seven days before the Epiphany, Whitsunday, Transfiguration, Assumption, Exaltation of Holy Rood (Sunday between September 11 and 17), and before the first Sunday after Pentecost (the fast of Elias). Every Wednesday and Friday is a day of abstinence. Altogether they have 160 fast-days, and 117 abstinence-days in the year. The prayers on these days are of penitence and for the dead.

All Armenian services are in classical Armenian. Except Amen, Alleluia, Orthi, Proschūmen, everything is in that language. "Kyrie eleison" becomes "Ter oghormia," which the people cry out incessantly. Their liturgical books (under Latin influence) are the clearest and best arranged of any among Eastern Churches. They have eight: (1) The Directory or Calendar (Donatsoitz), corresponding to the Byzantine Typikon; (2) Liturgy, containing