MENOLOGION — Miniatures and text of the first pages of the *Menologion of Basil II* (976–1025) — Vatican Library, cod. Vat. grec. 1613, ff. 1 and 2.
new schisms among them, such as the “Church of God less-nite,” the “Mennonite Church of the Ancient Observance” (1870), etc. At present there are 17 divisions in the United States and Canada; the Mennonites maintain important missions in Christian and pagan countries.
BIBL.: W. Cathcart, *The Baptist Encyclopaedia*, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Philadelphia 1883 (it is asserted therein that the Mennonites are not Baptists because of their doctrine of the sufficiency of sprinkling Baptism); A. Keller and G. Stewart, *Protestant Europe: its Crisis and Outlook*, New York 1927; *United States Department of Commerce, Religious Bodies*, 2 vols., Washington 1929; J. Parker, *Directory of the World Missions*, New York 1938.