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Sources & Credits

Gedam’s liturgical content is drawn from validated, cited sources — never written from memory. This page names the churches, translators, and editions the app rests on, in gratitude for their work and in service of the trust this content asks of you. If you find an error in any reading, fast, feast, prayer, or saint, please tell us — we take it seriously.

Holy Scripture

The offline Bible, assembled from public-domain texts the Church receives.

Septuagint Old Testament + Deuterocanon Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), via bible.helloao.org
Public domain
New Testament World English Bible, via bible.helloao.org
Public domain
1 Enoch R. Laurence’s Ethiopic translation · Project Gutenberg #77815
Public domain
Jubilees (Kufale) R. H. Charles (1913), via the Sefaria API
Public domain
Meqabyan No public-domain English translation exists
Unavailable

Saints & the Synaxaria

The lives of the saints, commemorated each day.

Coptic Synaxarium copticchurch.net — 366 days of saints’ lives
At launch
Ethiopian & Eritrean Senkessar (Mäṣḥafä Senkessar) E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church (1928), via debresahl.com — archaic English gently modernized
Public domain
Syriac saints & prelates Fr. K. Mani Rajan, Martyrs, Saints & Prelates of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Vol. I (Travancore Syriac Orthodox Publishers, 2007) — 50 lives, linked to their feast days
At launch
Malankara declared saints The Malankara Orthodox Church’s own accounts (mosc.in) — Sts. Gregorios of Parumala, Baselios Yeldho & Geevarghese Mar Dionysius of Vattasseril
At launch
Armenian Synaxarion (Yaysmavurkʿ) No public-domain English translation exists — Armenian uses its lectionary commemorations instead
Unavailable

Lectionaries — the appointed daily readings

Each tradition’s own appointed readings, from its own source.

Coptic (the Katameros) api.katameros.app
At launch
Ethiopian & Eritrean The EOTC’s official annual readings · ethiopianorthodox.org
At launch
Armenian (Ճաշոց / Jashots) Western Prelacy / Armenian Religious Education Council reading editions · westernprelacy.org
At launch
Syriac The four-office Lectionary of the Syrian Orthodox Church (jacobitechurchny.com), cross-checked against the dated Sunday-and-feast edition of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in N. America (malankara.com)
At launch
Malankara (Indian) Orthodox St. Mary’s Malankara Orthodox parish (Northern Virginia) edition — Sundays, feasts & the offices
At launch

Fasts, feasts & the liturgical calendar

The fasting rules and feast days of each tradition, and the computus that dates the moving year. The calendar is computed from the Church’s own reckoning, then verified — see the Calendar page.

Syriac fasts & feasts The Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese “Liturgics Data File” · jacobitechurchny.com
At launch
Armenian fasts & feasts Western Prelacy “Fasting Days” · westernprelacy.org; Armenian Prelacy feast lists · armenianprelacy.org
At launch
Malankara fasts mosc.in (“Fasting and abstinence”, “Lent”) and Malankara World
At launch
Orthodox Pascha (Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean) The Alexandrian Paschalion — Meeus Julian algorithm with the Julian→Gregorian offset; verified against published church dates, 2024–2030
Computed
Gregorian Easter (Armenian, Syriac, Malankara) Anonymous Gregorian / Meeus algorithm; West-Syriac re-dating per syriacorthodoxresources.org
Computed
Geʼez ⇄ Gregorian conversion Exact, via Julian Day Number — so Coptic/Ethiopian feasts fall correctly every year
Computed

Prayers & the Hours

Transcribed verbatim from each tradition’s own books, never written from memory.

Coptic Agpeya — the seven Hours & Thanksgiving agpeya.org
Public domain
Wudase Mariam (Praises of Mary) Ascribed to St. Ephrem the Syrian · English via spotchurch.org
Tewahedo
Devotional & sacramental prayers St. Basil & St. John Chrysostom, canticles · Ethiopian collection, spotchurch.org
Tewahedo
Occasional prayers Coptic Orthodox prayer book · st-takla.org
Coptic
Daily prayers (Tselot Zeweir) Geʼez + transliteration + English
Provided
The Anaphoras (Qeddase) — all fourteen The EOTC’s own library · ethiopianorthodox.org
Tewahedo
Marian Salutation (Selam laki Maryam) EOTC · ethiopianorthodoxchurch.org
Tewahedo

Terminology & reference

The names of the fasts and feasts, and the wider library.

Fast & feast names (six-language table) Amharic, Coptic Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Malayalam — a validated source table
Validated
External library links copticchurch.net · st-takla.org · tasbeha.org · armenianchurch.org · mosc.in · ethiopianorthodox.org
Reference

Written from the tradition

Not transcribed but composed — faithful to the tradition, miaphysite-precise, each item carrying its own citations.

Church Fathers profiles Alexandrian, Coptic & desert, Cappadocian, Syriac, and miaphysite confessors — quotations are well-attested and attributed
Cited
Saint-of-the-day summaries & teaching articles Christology per the councils Oriental Orthodoxy receives — Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus
Cited
The computed liturgical calendar Derived mathematically from the Orthodox Paschalion (Bahere Hasab) and the Geʼez calendar conversion — not pulled from any text
Computed

A note of thanks

This work stands on the labor of the Church.

To the translators who carried these texts into English, the parishes that published their readings, and the editors of the synaxaria — thank you. Gedam only gathers what you preserved.