Abstract
The author argues that the canon “The Shepherd of Christ’s sheep…” which is attested in three Cyrillic manuscript copies (13th–14th c.) of the earliest hymnographic office for St Sava the Serb (†14 January 1235 or 1236), 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 canon (with the identical incipit) which had been originally compiled for commemoration of St Nicolas with addition of some hymns for St Ambrose (December 7), St Patapios of Thebes (December 8), Sunday of the Holy Fathers, and St Ignatios of Antioch (December 20).
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