Kassia

22" adjustable 4-strand brown pearls with silver clasp, hand-knotted

*Each piece in our Perennial Collection is made-to-order and hand-strung. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.

Kassia was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant and twenty-three are included in Orthodox Church liturgical books. The exact number is difficult to assess, as many hymns are ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts and are often identified as anonymous.