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Definition of Trisagion

Trisagion
Trisagion Tris*ag"i*on, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? thrice holy; ? thrice + ? holy.] (Eccl.) An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin name tersanctus.See Tersanctus.

Meaning of Trisagion from wikipedia

- The Trisagion (Gr****: Τρισάγιον; 'Thrice Holy'), sometimes called by its incipit Agios O Theos, is a standard hymn of the Divine Liturgy in most of the...
- The Trisagion rosary (usually called a chaplet) has three groups of nine beads. In reciting the chaplet, each group is preceded by the Trisagion and the...
- Sundays.[citation needed] At the end of the Great Doxology, while the Trisagion is sung, the epitaphios is taken in procession around the outside the...
- Small Doxology, the Nicene Creed, the Canon followed by Axion Estin, the Trisagion, Troparia for the day, Kyrie eleison (40 times), the Prayer of the Hours...
- a liturgical text from the Improperia, which contains the Gr****-Latin Trisagion, prescribed for use in the Catholic responsory for Good Friday. It begins...
- procession around the outside of the church as the faithful sing the Trisagion.[citation needed] Vespers joined to the Divine Liturgy is served on Great...
- rarer name for the Sanctus. The same name is sometimes used for the Trisagion. In Western Christianity, the Sanctus forms part of the Ordinary and is...
- the Trisagion is sung three times, each time with a different reference to the Incarnation, P****ion, Resurrection, thus addressing the Trisagion to Christ...
- after the schism. This is certainly the case at one point, that of the Trisagion. One Syriac writer is James of Edessa (d. 708), who wrote a letter to...
- Oriental Orthodox elements in their liturgies, including introduction of the Trisagion and deletion of the filioque clause from the Nicene Creed. For their part...