• century, Christian writers augmented Josephus' histories with hagiographic and legendary material. Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony is a continuation...
    17 KB (2,484 words) - 05:49, 16 August 2024
  • Look up legendary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Legendary may refer to: Legend, a folklore genre Legendary (hagiography) Anjou Legendarium J. R...
    2 KB (254 words) - 05:50, 29 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hagiography
    A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy' and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical...
    23 KB (2,648 words) - 23:30, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legend
    Legend (redirect from Legendary stories)
    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...
    16 KB (1,970 words) - 16:01, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baal Shem
    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...
    25 KB (2,869 words) - 16:39, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Longinus
    held during Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, the Philippines. Hagiographical fragments on St. Longinus from 11th–13th century found in Dubrovnik...
    19 KB (1,892 words) - 03:07, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Chrysostom
    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...
    81 KB (8,855 words) - 22:15, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ephrem the Syrian
    the church. There is a huge corpus of Ephrem pseudepigraphy and legendary hagiography in many languages. Some of these compositions are in verse, often...
    47 KB (5,012 words) - 16:19, 23 June 2024
  • manuscripts survive, preserving nearly three hundred hagiographic works. A legendary is any hagiographic collection. Earlier scholarship attempted to identify...
    7 KB (857 words) - 17:39, 23 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Suhaldev
    Suhaldev (category Legendary Indian people)
    Suhaldev or Suheldev Bais was a legendary Rajput king from Shravasti. Persian Hagiography Mirat-i-Masudi, written in 17th century, popularly mentions...
    14 KB (1,699 words) - 21:22, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hubertus
    story of the stag first appears in one of the later legendary hagiographies (Bibliotheca hagiographic Latina, nos. 3994–4002) and has been appropriated...
    16 KB (1,815 words) - 09:02, 10 April 2024
  • Historia Divae Monacellae (category Christian hagiography)
    The Historia Divae Monacellae is the medieval Latin hagiography of Melangell (Latin: Monacella), an early medieval Welsh saint whose cult is centered...
    15 KB (1,734 words) - 14:44, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Susanna of Rome
    Susanna of Rome (category Legendary Romans)
    was a Christian martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution. Her existing hagiography, written between about 450 and 500 AD, is of no historical value and...
    5 KB (542 words) - 17:38, 10 July 2024
  • life. The story of the hart appears first in one of the later legendary hagiographies (Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina, nos. 3994–4002) and has been...
    32 KB (4,261 words) - 00:41, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Martial
    buried encouraged the creation of an elaborate hagiography during the 10th century. As the hagiography grew, Martial was moved back in time: now, sent...
    8 KB (883 words) - 20:27, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Óláfs saga helga
    Separate Saga of St. Olaf. The saga draws from skaldic poetry and Latin hagiography, with embellishments from popular oral legends. The earliest version...
    8 KB (900 words) - 16:28, 16 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Saint Giles
    Saint Giles (category Legendary Romans)
    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...
    14 KB (1,434 words) - 04:56, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pancras of Taormina
    Taormina and venerated as a Christian martyr. His surviving hagiography is purely legendary. He is, however, recorded in some early martyrologies. Pancras...
    6 KB (619 words) - 00:02, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Merovingian dynasty
    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...
    51 KB (4,384 words) - 15:45, 10 July 2024
  • 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...
    879 bytes (137 words) - 06:44, 30 October 2023
  • chivalric romance Mirat-i-Masudi ("Mirror of Masud"), a Persian-language hagiography written by Abdur Rahman Chishti in the 1620s. According to this biography...
    18 KB (2,324 words) - 23:23, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romanus of Rouen
    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...
    7 KB (990 words) - 03:40, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marcellinus and Peter
    venerated within the Catholic Church as martyrs who were beheaded. Hagiographies place them in 4th century Rome. They are generally represented as men...
    9 KB (963 words) - 20:28, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
    Christianity and its doctrinal controversies, as well as for hagiographical, liturgical, and legendary texts from Byzantine culture. Most of our knowledge of...
    8 KB (825 words) - 14:34, 31 March 2024
  • century), a member of the legendary Theban Legion Constantius of Lyon (fl. c. 480), cleric who wrote the Vita Germani, a hagiography Saint Constantius of Aquino...
    1 KB (205 words) - 01:31, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christina the Astonishing
    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...
    13 KB (1,382 words) - 22:30, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Quentin
    Saint Quentin (category Legendary Romans)
    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...
    5 KB (460 words) - 02:17, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Pantaleon
    tradition concerning Pantaleon follows more or less the medieval Western hagiography, but lacks any mention of a visible apparition of Christ.[dubious – discuss]...
    20 KB (2,106 words) - 21:50, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amalberga of Maubeuge
    another 11th-century hagiography, namely the Martyr story of Catherine of Alexandria. The biographical profile of her legendary husband, duke Witger of...
    5 KB (469 words) - 22:30, 5 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for William of Gellone
    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...
    10 KB (1,075 words) - 18:39, 11 July 2024