International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Ketevan Tatishvili
Korneli Kekelidze National Center of Manuscripts, Tbilisi, Georgia, 
[e-mail]
The Hymns of the Georgian Holy Fathers of Mount Athos 
in the Liturgical Book of the 18
th
Century
Iviron monastery of Mount Athos and activities of Georgian holy fathers there left the deep 
imprint on the development of the Georgian literature, culture and on the establishment of public 
opinion as well. That was the reason why in the 11
th
century synaxarion (A-97) the names of Ioane 
the Athonite, Euthimius the Athonite and George the Athonite were first mentioned. There their 
hymns in liturgical books were also preserved. 
In the 18
th
century the national tendency strengthened in the Georgian Orthodox Literature. 
This led to the direction that Church started to evaluate the activities of Georgian saints according 
to the new viewpoint and so, Anton I Catholicos wrote and inserted several hymns of Georgian 
saints in his Feast Hymn Book (S1464); among them are Canons and small hymns of Euthimius 
the Athonite (S1464 607v-612r), George the Athonite (S1464 665r-671r), Ioane the Athonite and 
Gabriel (S1464 701v-706r). He left untouched the old Canons and small hymns of Euthimius and 
George the Athonites. Anton Catholicos has not change the commemorative day of Euthimius the 
Athonite (May 13), but he shifted the commemoration of Ioane the Athonite from July 14 to July 
12 and instituted commemoration of Gabriel at the same time. In the old redactions of Feast hymn 
Books the commemoration of George the Athonite was celebrated on June 30, but in Anton’s Feast 
Hymn Book and in one typicon of 1749 (A122) the commemoration was fixed on June 27.

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THE BYZANTINES, SOUTH SLAVS AND HUNGARIANS
Chairs: 
Georgi N. Nikolov,