diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dbab64a..956d047 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ $ typikon -j ruthenian --no-typikon --days 4 --date 2026-02-16
 
   🥬 Mon 16 Feb* no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    Clean Monday — the first day of the…
   🥬 Tue 17 Feb  no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the…
-  🥬 Wed 18 Feb* no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    Our Holy Father Leo, Pope of Rome (461)
-  🥬 Thu 19 Feb  no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    The Holy Apostle Archippus
+  🥬 Wed 18 Feb* no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    Our Holy Father Leo the Great, Pope…
+  🥬 Thu 19 Feb  no meat, fish, eggs or dairy    The Holy Apostles Archippus and…
 
   * obligatory. Everything unmarked is customary and does not bind.
 ```
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ $ typikon -j ruthenian --typikon --days 4 --date 2026-02-16
 
   ⛔ Mon 16 Feb* no food until evening           Clean Monday — the first day of the…
   🫒 Tue 17 Feb  wine and oil permitted          The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the…
-  🥬 Wed 18 Feb* xerophagy — no oil or wine      Our Holy Father Leo, Pope of Rome (461)
-  🥬 Thu 19 Feb  xerophagy — no oil or wine      The Holy Apostle Archippus
+  🥬 Wed 18 Feb* xerophagy — no oil or wine      Our Holy Father Leo the Great, Pope…
+  🥬 Thu 19 Feb  xerophagy — no oil or wine      The Holy Apostles Archippus and…
 
   * obligatory. Everything unmarked is customary and does not bind.
 ```
diff --git a/tests/readme-examples.py b/tests/readme-examples.py
index 3ef95f3..b2a2921 100755
--- a/tests/readme-examples.py
+++ b/tests/readme-examples.py
@@ -51,9 +51,13 @@ def main():
         print(f"  {BINARY} not built; run cargo build --release", file=sys.stderr)
         return 77
     env = dict(os.environ, COLUMNS="88")
-    # The examples must not depend on whatever this machine remembers.
+    # The examples must not depend on whatever this machine remembers, nor on
+    # a menaion this machine happens to have fetched. A reader running them
+    # after a fresh install has neither, and the README should show what they
+    # get: without this the Ruthenian examples passed here and failed in CI.
     env.pop("TYPIKON_JURISDICTION", None)
     env["XDG_CONFIG_HOME"] = str(ROOT / "target" / "readme-config")
+    env["XDG_DATA_HOME"] = str(ROOT / "target" / "readme-data")
 
     text = (ROOT / "README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     checked = bad = skipped = 0