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Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but this is more of a history question. What daily prayer & household blessing books were popular among English-speaking Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholics/Orthodox in the 19th and early 20th centuries? Just talking about laypeople, not clergy/monastics.

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I imagine English-speaking Orthodox would have been pretty rare at that time, and English prayer books even rarer. I believe the first English-language prayer-book to get any wide distribution was Hapgood's 1906 service book, which was really not targeted to the average layman. The Manual of Orthodox Prayers, published by the Sts Sergius and Alban Fellowrship in 1945, might be the first lay-oriented prayer book. Even in the Greek, Russian, etc., though, keep in mind that prayer books are relatively modern (as in the past 3 or 4 centuries) and only a certain stratum of literate laity would have used them.

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Many thanks for the answer!


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