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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Andrew of Crete |
 | | The titles affixed will serve to indicate the variety of themes. |
 | | In addition to these, ten other canons and four triodia furnish illustrations of his work in the second, third, and fourth Authentic, and the second and fourth plagal tones. |
 | | He is also credited with the authorship of many idiomela (short, detached troparia, somewhat similar to our antiphons), found in the offices of thirteen feasts of the Greek calendar, usually as doxasticha and aposticha at Lauds and Vespers, and in processional and vesperal stichera. |
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