MENOLOGION — Miniatures and text of the first pages of the Menologion of Basilio II (976–1025) — Vatican Library, cod. Vat. grec. 1613, fols. 1 and 2.
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new schisms among them, such as the “Mennonite Church of God,” the “Mennonite Church of the Old Order” (1870), etc. At present, 17 divisions are counted in the United States and Canadà. The Mennonites have important missions in Christian and pagan countries.
BIBL.: W. Cathcart, The Baptist Encyclopaedia, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Philadelphia 1883 (it is asserted there that the Mennonites are not Baptists because of their doctrine concerning the sufficiency of baptism by aspersion); A. Keller and G. Stewart, Protestant Europe: its Crisis and Outlook, Nuova York 1927; United States Department of Commerce, Religious Bodies, 2 vols., Washington 1929; J. Parker, Directory of the World Missions, Nuova York 1938.