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[... a] feast of the shepherds of former Israel, praising the Cornerstone, the fitting together of the two walls. Today, the House of God [is] established upon the tops of the mountains, which also is continually irrigated from the clouds of the Spirit by the God-welling, abundant-flowing rains; praise the Fountain of Life, the one who quenches the thirst of the thirsty.

RUBRIC: Canon of the Martyrs, Children [*Mankunkʿ*] *šarakan* [hymn]. First Mode [*Aṙaǰin Jayn*].

[Tone] AJ [First Mode]: Celebrating today, with the incorporeal hosts, the ascetic struggle of your saints, O Christ, we sing praise to you unceasingly. Having stripped off the garment of human weakness [and] arrayed in the vestments of faith, they conquered their adversaries in battle. Baptized into death with Christ by the shedding of blood, being the wondrous handiwork of the Godhead, [they were] built up for the splendor of the holy kingdom.