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hagiographyLiterature describing the lives of the saints. Christian hagiography includes stories of saintly monks, bishops, princes, and virgins, with accounts of their martyrdom and of the miracles connected with their relics, tombs, icons, or statues. Written as early as the 2nd century and popular during the Middle Ages, hagiographies focus on lives of individual saints or on stories of a class of saints (e.g., martyrs). hagiography 1. the writing of the lives of the saints 2. biography of the saints 3. any biography that idealizes or idolizes its subject Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | In this exhaustively researched, tightly written, rigorous critical study of the life of Saint Rose of Lima, Frank Graziano carefully elaborates the cultural and historical issues that surrounded Saint Rose's life, beatification, canonization, and longlasting legend as told through varied hagiographies and archival documents. In the second, he provides a historical analysis of the formation of the hagiographies, exploring such factors as authorship and authority, the geography of the authors, the evolution of the hagiographies, and the translation of a biography written around 781. |
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