hagiology
Americannoun
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the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of the saints.
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a biography or narrative of a saint or saints.
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a collection of such biographies or narratives.
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literature concerned with the lives and legends of saints
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a biography of a saint
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a collection of such biographies
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an authoritative canon of saints
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a history of sacred writings
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The men who invented the country 200 years ago have long since been enshrouded by the myths of textbooks and the mists of hagiology.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lenin's place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then at age 44, a fatal car crash, after which the rest is the kind of pop hagiology that America reserves for its culture heroes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is, to make a liturgical garden, a true Benedictine garden, where flowers may be grown in succession for the sake of their relations to the Scriptures and hagiology.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Our old Scottish hagiologies, witch trials, ecclesiastical records, etc., abound with notices of them.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John
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