Round 4: Tossup 10

Starting with the month of Tute, this language’s synaxarium assigns one of its many martyr hagiographies to its daily liturgy, where it is read following a reading from Acts. Seven “prayers of the hour” are collected within the Agpeya for use within this language’s liturgy. Shenoute the Great wrote in this language (10[1])as an abbot at the White Monastery. The Lycopolitan and Sahidic dialects of this language were used to write the Gnostic Nag Hammadi codices. The Gospel (-5[1])of Judas was written in this language. (-5[1])Unlike a related language’s fourteen anaphoras, this language’s liturgies are limited to ones named for Saints Cyril, Gregory, and Basil, (-5[1])which supplanted the Liturgy of St. (-5[1])Mark. For 10 points, Ge’ez shares a parent rite with what Demotic-derived language (10[1])that names an Egyptian-based Orthodox Church? (10[1]) (10[3])■END■

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