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The Prologue as Open Data

The complete English text of the Prologue from Ochrid, all 366 days, is available as Markdown and JSON for apps, websites, and any other project that wants to carry St. Nikolai's words further.

ochrid-com/prologue-from-ochrid

Getting the Data

The data is distributed through git. Clone the repository once:

git clone https://github.com/ochrid-com/prologue-from-ochrid.git

Corrections are made continuously. Run git pull from time to time to stay current.

What's Inside

markdown/MM/MM-DD.md: one file per day, with the sections Lives of the Saints, Hymn of Praise, Reflection, Contemplation, and Homily.
prologue.json: every day in a single file, with the text split into fields:

{
  "date_julian": "01-01",
  "date_gregorian": "01-14",
  "title": "...",
  "lives": [{ "heading": "...", "text": "..." }],
  "hymn": "...",
  "reflection": "...",
  "contemplation": "...",
  "homily": "..."
}

Days are keyed by the Julian (Old Calendar) date, as in the original book. Each day also carries its Gregorian date. Text fields are Markdown.

License

The translation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Use it freely, as long as you credit OCHRID.COM and share adapted versions of the text under the same license. A credit line like this is all we ask:

The Prologue from Ochrid, translated by OCHRID.COM (https://ochrid.com), CC BY-SA 4.0.