Abstract
The paraklesis is a short service addressed to a saint composed of texts taken from the menaion dedicated to the same saint. Parakleses attest to the popularity of the saint they are dedicated to and usually originate from the area associated with his/her life or the location of their relics. Services of this type usually comprise parts of existing services. Several parakleses to St. Sava, comprising parts of different canons from the services by Teodosije the Hilandarian, have survived in the Serbian manuscript tradition of the first half of the 15th century. The paraklesis composed on the occasion of the translation of relics of St. Luke the Evangelist to Smederevo in 1453 is an original work of Serbian literature. Two manuscripts that include only parakleses to various saints have survived from this period and both are kept at the Museum of the Orthodox Church in Belgrade (МСПЦ Грујић З- I -З, МСПЦ 34).
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