Close the Kochurov/ROCOR question: the data is OCA's, not ROCOR's - #227
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The last open follow-up from #225, which was merged before this landed. Checked against holytrinityorthodox.com, the ROCOR calendar, which reckons old calendar so Julian Oct 31 is Gregorian Nov 13. ROCOR commemorates St John Kochurov and gives him no proper readings. The day names him among a dozen commemorations and its scripture line is the plain daily cycle, 1 Thess 5:9-13, 24-28 / Luke 11:23-26. A control rules out the page simply not printing propers: Julian Nov 13, St John Chrysostom, lists John 10:1-9 as Matins Gospel and Heb 7:26-8:2 / John 10:9-16 each labelled "St. John". The format shows propers, with service and attribution, when they exist. So the hypothesis was backwards. Kochurov's three readings are OCA's, and ROCOR is the tradition without them. This app's Slavic data is compiled from oca.org and follows it here, so nothing changes. Recorded as a genuine OCA/ROCOR divergence, since `tradition` has only slavic, greek and common and no axis to express one -- Oct 31 is a known instance if that axis is ever added. It also settles the earlier misstep retrospectively: deleting Kochurov's Epistle and repointing his Gospel would have moved this app toward ROCOR practice by accident, away from its own documented source. Documentation only; no code or data changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019nQRjJpPqW89xqzAf1vsEX
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The last open follow-up from #225, which was merged before this one landed.
Documentation only — no code or data changes.
The answer inverts the hypothesis
The worry was that Oct 31's St John Kochurov readings might have been shaped for
ROCOR practice rather than OCA. Checked against holytrinityorthodox.com
(Jordanville), which reckons old calendar — so Julian Oct 31 is Gregorian Nov 13.
ROCOR commemorates him and gives him no proper readings. The day names "New
Hieromartyr Priest John Kochurov of Chicago and St. Petersburg (1917)" among a
dozen commemorations, and its scripture line is the plain daily cycle:
1 Thess 5:9-13, 24-28/Luke 11:23-26.A control rules out the page simply not printing propers — Julian Nov 13,
St John Chrysostom:
The format shows propers, with service and attribution, when they exist. So the
blank on Kochurov's day is real.
What follows
Kochurov's three readings are OCA's — oca.org gives
Heb 13:7-16,Luke 12:32-40andJohn 10:9-16, all labelled for him — and ROCOR is thetradition without them. This app's Slavic data is compiled from oca.org and
follows it here, so nothing changes.
Worth recording as a genuine OCA/ROCOR divergence:
traditionhas onlyslavic,greekandcommon, with no axis to express one. Oct 31 is a knowninstance if that axis is ever added.
It also settles an earlier misstep retrospectively. The "fix" that deleted
Kochurov's Epistle and repointed his Gospel would have moved this app toward
ROCOR practice by accident, away from its own documented source. The
all-services harvest caught it at the time; this confirms the restore was right.