the maronite church has a tradition that their third anaphora of the apostle peter or "sharrar" (the maronite redaction of the holy qurbana of addai and mari) was originally composed for and used at the funeral of the theotokos. this tradition probably developed because in its final form the anaphora has twelve paragraphs, i.e., one for each concelebrating apostle present at the funeral mass of the theotokos.