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One of three Byzantine rite service books that contain the offices for the cycle of movable feasts ( see also parakletike ; pentekostarion ). It contains texts for offices for Great Lent and great week , ending with the prote anastasis , and preceded by those for the four Sundays and the last two Saturdays before Lent. The Triodion is so named because the canon at weekday Matins contains only three odes (on Saturdays four), not the usual eight. The modern Triodion is largely the work of the Constantinopolitan Studite monastery in the ninth century, particularly of theodore the studite and his brother Joseph, though many texts are earlier or later. Notable among the former are the daily idiomela for Vespers and ainoi by two monks of the Lavra of St Sabas, Andrew and Stephen; among the latter the Enkomia sung Matins of Holy Saturday and the office for gregory palamas , composed by Patriarch Philotheos of Constantinople, both of which appear in the fourteenth century. The Triodion also contains two celebrated texts not originally composed for Lent, the Great Canon of andrew of crete , sung on the fifth Thursday, and the sixth-century akathist to the Mother of God, sung on the fifth Saturday. In Slav use the Triodion is known as the ‘fasting Triodion’, as opposed to the ‘flowery Triodion’, the name given in Slavonic to the Pentekostarion. ( 1978 ), The Lenten Triodion ... log in or subscribe to read full text