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Cross-check the Greek Menaion rows against oca.org - #222

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Docs only — no code or data change.

The ten Menaion readings added in #220 were scoped greek because no OCA source was to hand to say whether Slavic keeps them. oca.org's daily readings turn out to be plainly fetchable, so the question is now settled rather than assumed.

Nine of the ten are correctly greek

On each date oca.org either reads something different or gives the day no proper reading:

date Greek OCA
Apr 25, Mark the Apostle Luke 10:16-21 Mark 6:7-13
Apr 30, James the Apostle Luke 9:1-6 Luke 5:1-11
May 7 Acts 26:1-5, 12-20 Gal 1:11-19 / John 10:1-9, for St Alexis Toth
Jul 5 Gospel Matt 11:27-30 at Liturgy Luke 6:17-23 at Liturgy, Matt 11:27-30 at Matins
Jul 13, Aug 31 (×2), Sep 24, Dec 17 proper readings daily cycle only

The tenth is shared, and should stay two rows

Both traditions read Gal 5:22-26; 6:1-2 on Jul 5, so collapsing to one common row looks like the obvious cleanup. It would be wrong: the two rows carry different attributions and both are accurate. Slavic's says "either Saint" — OCA commemorates Athanasius and the uncovering of Sergius of Radonezh's relics that day, and the Epistle serves either — while Greek's names Athanasius. Merging would force one tradition's attribution onto the other.

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Adds oca.org to the source notes in Part II, with the trap that surfaced here: a commemoration appearing on the page does not mean it has proper readings. oca.org lists the Appearance of the Cross on May 7 and the Myrtle Tree icon on Sep 24 and gives neither a Liturgy reading.

Incidentally, on all eight dates the app's Slavic output matches oca.org exactly, Vespers and Matins included — the first direct check of the Slavic data against its own source anywhere in the doc.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_019nQRjJpPqW89xqzAf1vsEX

The ten Menaion readings added in #220 were scoped `greek` because no OCA
source was to hand to say whether Slavic keeps them. oca.org's daily readings
are plainly fetchable, so the question is now settled rather than assumed.

Nine of the ten are correctly `greek`: on each date oca.org either gives a
different reading (Apr 25, Apr 30, May 7, and Jul 5's Gospel) or none at all
(Jul 13, Aug 31, Sep 24, Dec 17).

The tenth is shared -- both traditions read Gal 5:22-26; 6:1-2 on Jul 5 -- but
should stay as two rows rather than collapse to one `common` row. They carry
different attributions and both are right: Slavic's says "either Saint",
because OCA commemorates Athanasius and the uncovering of Sergius of
Radonezh's relics that day and the Epistle serves either, while Greek's names
Athanasius. Merging would force one tradition's attribution on the other.

Also adds oca.org to Part II's source notes, including the trap that surfaced
here: a commemoration appearing on the page does not mean it has proper
readings. oca.org lists the Appearance of the Cross on May 7 and the Myrtle
Tree icon on Sep 24 and gives neither a Liturgy reading.

Incidentally, on all eight dates the app's Slavic output matches oca.org
exactly, Vespers and Matins included -- the first direct check of the Slavic
data against its own source anywhere in the doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019nQRjJpPqW89xqzAf1vsEX
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Consolidated into #224 -- the commit is carried over verbatim. Closing to keep one reviewable branch rather than three overlapping ones.

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