century, Christian writers augmented Josephus' histories with hagiographic and legendary material. Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony is a continuation...

Look up legendary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Legendary may refer to: Legend, a folklore genre Legendary (hagiography) Anjou Legendarium J. R...

A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy' and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical...

to be read [on a certain day, in church]") were hagiographical accounts, often collected in a legendary. Because saints' lives are often included in many...

held during Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, the Philippines. Hagiographical fragments on St. Longinus from 11th–13th century found in Dubrovnik...

abilities to work on behalf of the common Jewish populace. From the legendary hagiography of the BeShT as one who bridged elite mysticism with deep social...

Johanne Chrysostomo (1537) to analyse the pitfalls of the Christian Legendary (hagiography). John Chrysostom died in the city of Comana in 407 on his way to...

the church. There is a huge corpus of Ephrem pseudepigraphy and legendary hagiography in many languages. Some of these compositions are in verse, often...

story of the stag first appears in one of the later legendary hagiographies (Bibliotheca hagiographic Latina, nos. 3994–4002) and has been appropriated...

manuscripts survive, preserving nearly three hundred hagiographic works. A legendary is any hagiographic collection. Earlier scholarship attempted to identify...

life. The story of the hart appears first in one of the later legendary hagiographies (Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina, nos. 3994–4002) and has been...

Suhaldev was a legendary king from Shravasti town of India. Persian hagiography Mirat-i-Masudi, written in 17th century, popularly mentions him to have...

Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly legendary. A town that bears his name grew up around the monastery he...

buried encouraged the creation of an elaborate hagiography during the 10th century. As the hagiography grew, Martial was moved back in time: now, sent...

Taormina and venerated as a Christian martyr. His surviving hagiography is purely legendary. He is, however, recorded in some early martyrologies. Pancras...

Merovingian literature is represented by the Lives of the saints. Merovingian hagiography did not set out to reconstruct a biography in the Roman or the modern...

Separate Saga of St. Olaf. The saga draws from skaldic poetry and Latin hagiography, with embellishments from popular oral legends. The earliest version...

was a Christian martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution. Her existing hagiography, written between about 450 and 500 AD, is of no historical value and...

chivalric romance Mirat-i-Masudi ("Mirror of Masud"), a Persian-language hagiography written by Abdur Rahman Chishti in the 1620s. According to this biography...

the reader. Romances should be separated from hagiographical forgeries, which used an original hagiography to "pervert history, such, for instance, as the...

Saint Romanus of Rouen (French: Romain; reconstructed Frankish: *Hruomann; died c. 640 AD) was a scribe, clerical sage, and bishop of Rouen. He would have...

a saint's name: Acta Sancti ("Deeds of Saint") N.; a common title of hagiography works actiones secundum fidei action follows belief i.e., "we act according...

Nonnus (wasp), a genus of wasps St Nonnus, a probably legendary Syrian bishop from the hagiography of St Pelagia Nonnus of Edessa, bishop, frequently but...

miracles attributed to her during her life. Thomas of Cantimpré wrote a hagiography of her based on accounts from people who knew her, which made her known...

Quentin (Latin: Quintinus; died c. 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint. The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen...

Dead Hides and the Living Sea in Columban and Related Hagiography‟, in Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars, eds John Carey, Máire Herbert...

existed, but his importance as a legendary figure, prominent in mostly nineteenth-century central Asian Ismaili hagiography,: 373–74  is not doubted. The...

13th-century hagiographical work by Jacobus de Voragine. In the story, Saint Martha encounters and tames the Tarasque, a dragon-like legendary creature said...

1066 by Pope Alexander II. In the tenth or eleventh century, a Latin hagiography, the Vita sancti Willelmi, was composed. By the twelfth century, William's...

Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪宗六祖), is a semi-legendary but central figure in the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism. According...