Office of the Nativity
from the Festal Menaion

Published by Holy Virgin Church, Jingdu (Dormition Monastery, Beijing), fourth lunar month of 1884

Translated into Classical Chinese by Archim. Flavian.
Proofread by Hieromonk Nikolai.
Edited by Priest Mitrophan.

PDF scan now available. There is a copy of the 1884 edition located in the library of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (中国科学院世界宗教研究所图书馆藏书), which have been reprinted on pages 25-178 to 25-222 in volume 25 of their hardcover 东传福音 (Dong chuan fu yin) on October 2005 (ISBN 7-80707-295-4).

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