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Hagiography
Kamis, 2026-03-19 23:30:50

Middle Ages. Irish hagiographers wrote primarily in Latin while some of the later saint's lives were written in the hagiographer's native vernacular Irish...

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Byzantine literature of the Justinian era
Jumat, 2026-04-10 23:44:51

Byzantine literature of the Justinian era refers to the period of Byzantine literature from the accession of Emperor Justinian I in 527 to the rise of...

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Mahatma Gandhi
Jumat, 2026-05-29 11:53:55

October–December 2002. Roberts, Andrew (26 March 2011). "Among the Hagiographers (A book review of "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With...

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Hildebert of Lavardin
Rabu, 2026-04-22 22:37:53

of Lavardin (c. 1055 – 18 December 1133) was a French ecclesiastic, hagiographer and theologian. From 1096–97 he was bishop of Le Mans, then from 1125...

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Laurentius Surius
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:31:48

Sauer; Lübeck, 1523 – Cologne, 23 May 1578) was a German Carthusian hagiographer and church historian. Laurentius Surius was born in Lübeck in 1523, to...

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Robert of Shrewsbury (abbot)
Senin, 2025-12-29 08:40:44

Benedictine monk, prior and later abbot of Shrewsbury Abbey, and a noted hagiographer. Robert was a common name in the 12th century among the Anglo-Norman...

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Jocelin of Furness
Selasa, 2026-03-03 14:19:50

Jocelin of Furness (fl. 1175–1214) was an English Cistercian hagiographer, known for his Lives of Saint Waltheof, Saint Patrick, Saint Kentigern and Saint...

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May 15
Senin, 2026-05-18 21:24:11

English publisher (born 1680) 1773 – Alban Butler, English priest and hagiographer (born 1710) 1845 – Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician...

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Siege of Shamakhi (1578)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:51:41

the major cities of Derbent and Baku. The author Asafi, secretary and hagiographer of Osman Pasha, was also present in Shamakhi during this period. As the...

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Adi Shankara
Jumat, 2026-05-29 22:38:28

significantly informed by Pancaratra—as were Ramanuja and Madhva—yet Sankara's hagiographers project him as an 'orthodox' (Vedic) saiva. In the following chapter...

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Zdislava Berka
Minggu, 2026-05-17 21:10:06

poor, opening the castle doors to those dispossessed by the invasions. Hagiographer Robert Ellsberg stated that Havel tolerated her "extravagant charity"...

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Heribert Rosweyde
Kamis, 2025-06-26 03:03:48

that of the revisions to which many editors, notably the 16th century hagiographers, Lippomano and Surius, then the latest and most celebrated, had believed...

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Abdul Qadir Gilani
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:27:45

suggest that it may have been emphasized or constructed by the later Hagiographers. Gilani spent his early life in Gilan, the province of his birth. In...

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Epiphanius the Wise
Rabu, 2025-12-31 21:23:19

romanized: Epifany Premudry; died c. 1420) was a Russian Orthodox monk and hagiographer. He was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh. Historian Serge Aleksandrovich...

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Jean Bolland
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 04:56:12

September 1665) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent hagiographer. Bolland's main achievement is the compilation of the first five volumes...

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Hermes Trismegistus
Rabu, 2026-04-29 12:29:00

tradition, although the name Hermes does not appear in the Qur'an. Hagiographers and chroniclers of the first centuries of the Islamic Hijrah quickly...

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Saint Nicholas
Minggu, 2026-05-03 00:46:33

reflects poorly on Nicholas's reputation, it is inexplicable why later hagiographers would have invented it. Later versions of the legend embellish it, making...

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Francis of Assisi
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:11:20

and delighted in fine clothes. He spent money lavishly. Although many hagiographers remark about Francis' bright clothing, rich friends, and love of pleasures...

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Pedro de Ribadeneira
Minggu, 2025-11-02 05:22:10

Cisneros; 1 November 1527 – 10 September or 22 September 1611) was a Spanish hagiographer, Jesuit priest, companion of Ignatius of Loyola, and a Spanish Golden...

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Catherine of Alexandria
Kamis, 2026-05-14 22:30:48

writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia states "although contemporary hagiographers look upon the authenticity of the various texts containing the legend...

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Joseph of Cupertino
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:50:50

when numerous witnesses were still alive. Inquests were used by his hagiographers, the earliest of which was composed by his confessor Roberto Nuti in...

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Mahipati
Minggu, 2026-03-01 12:24:28

Mahipati (1715–1790) was an 18th-century Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu Vaishnava sants who had lived between the...

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Martin of Tours
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 21:17:08

connection with viticulture is made by Gregory of Tours or other early hagiographers, he is now credited with a prominent role in spreading wine-making throughout...

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Bazas
Jumat, 2026-04-03 21:19:39

account given by the same historian that a lady of Bazas, whom certain hagiographers of the 19th century believe to have been St. Veronica, brought from...

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John Colgan
Minggu, 2026-05-24 13:24:22

c. 1592 – 15 January 1658), was an Irish Franciscan friar noted as a hagiographer and historian. Colgan was born c. 1592 at Priestown near Carndonagh,...

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Daniel Papebroch
Minggu, 2025-08-17 23:54:30

Daniel Papebroch, SJ, (17 March 1628 – 28 June 1714) was a Flemish Jesuit hagiographer, one of the Bollandists. He was a leading revisionist figure, bringing...

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Osbern of Canterbury
Selasa, 2025-10-21 02:55:20

Canterbury or Monk Osbern (c. 1050 – c. 1095) was a Benedictine monk, hagiographer and musician, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury. Osbern was born...

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Rivadeneira
Minggu, 2025-05-18 02:39:49

actress and cultural manager Pedro de Ribadeneira (1527–1611), Spanish hagiographer Ricardo Rivadeneira (1929–2011), Chilean politician Rivadeneyra Shoal...

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Attar of Nishapur
Rabu, 2026-05-06 06:24:26

(Attar means apothecary), was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry...

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Eudokia the Martyr
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 18:41:15

which commemorates her on August 4. However, some modern Orthodox hagiographers believe she might actually be a fictional character. Traditionally,...

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Herman the Archdeacon
Minggu, 2025-12-07 01:05:22

miracles, but he may have just have been following a standard practice of hagiographers of giving their works the authority of tradition by claiming to be following...

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Galadriel
Selasa, 2026-05-19 15:53:47

Article 8. Beal, Jane (2020). "Saint Galadriel?: J. R. R. Tolkien as Hagiographer of Middle-earth". Journal of Tolkien Research. 10 (2). Retrieved 11 March...

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Nestor the Chronicler
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:47:45

Nestor the Chronicler, or Nestor the Hagiographer, (Church Slavonic: Нестор Летописец, romanized: Nestor Letopisec; c. 1056 – c. 1114) was a monk from...

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Ibn Tumart
Senin, 2026-05-18 06:05:37

10 and 50. Many of the details of Ibn Tumart's life were recorded by hagiographers, whose accounts probably mix legendary elements from the Almohad doctrine...

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Dietrich of Apolda
Minggu, 2023-10-29 04:10:30

Dietrich of Apolda (died 1302) was a German Dominican hagiographer, writing towards the end of the thirteenth century. He wrote a popular life of Elizabeth...

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Cumméne Find
Jumat, 2024-10-11 15:27:35

7th-century Irish abbot and hagiographer...

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Persecution of Christians
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:47:30

In the account of Eusebius, an unnamed Christian man (named by later hagiographers as Euethius of Nicomedia [el; es; it; sw] and venerated on 27 February)...

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Cyril of Scythopolis
Selasa, 2026-05-19 14:55:39

Cyrillus Scythopolitanus, was a Christian monk, priest and Greek-language hagiographer or historian of monastic life in Palestine in the 6th century AD. Cyril...

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Sabine Baring-Gould
Minggu, 2026-05-03 08:00:30

January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. He...

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Religious war
Kamis, 2026-05-21 05:06:32

missionaries in defence of their Germanic paganism, to the horror of Christian hagiographers. The Crusades are a prime example of wars whose religious elements have...

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Nicholas Roscarrock
Selasa, 2026-04-14 22:15:08

Roscarrock (c. 1549 – c. 1634) was an English Catholic activist and hagiographer. Roscarrock was born probably about 1549. He was the fifth son of Richard...

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Symeon the Metaphrast
Kamis, 2025-09-18 23:17:35

century, Mark Eugenikos wrongly called Symeon a megas logothetes. The hagiographer actually lived a generation later than the historian Symeon Logothete...

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Jerome
Jumat, 2026-06-05 13:06:18

Jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Ancient Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 342–347 – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome...

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Golden Horde
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:14:34

orally. There was also a careful delineation between khan and "Tatars". Hagiographers sometimes absolved the khans from their role in killing Russian princes...

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Vedanta
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:42:27

significantly informed by Pancaratra—as were Ramanuja and Madhva—yet Sankara’s hagiographers project him as an ‘orthodox’ (Vedic) saiva." Nelson 2007, p. 313: "Indeed...

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Alexander I of Scotland
Minggu, 2026-03-08 03:31:11

Dunfermline Abbey, where his mother was buried. His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews (or Cell Rígmonaid) in 1107...

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Sally Hemings
Jumat, 2026-05-15 05:00:31

of hypocrisy. Dumas Malone, the greatest in a long line of Jefferson hagiographers, established the common wisdom when he wrote that an interracial sexual...

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Catarina de San Juan
Jumat, 2026-03-27 04:03:48

so much as texts narrating history but as an example of how colonial hagiographers constructed narratives of a holy person's life (vida). Nonetheless,...

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Saint Patrick
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:07:14

vigorous insistence that he was. Two works by late seventh-century hagiographers of Patrick have survived. These are the Vita sancti Patricii of Muirchú...

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Limburg (Netherlands)
Rabu, 2026-05-06 10:49:06

Hennis-Plasschaert (1973) - Politician and diplomat Godfrey Henschen (1601–1681) - Hagiographer Willem van Heythuysen (1590s–1650) - Cloth merchant and hofje founder...

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Margaret the Virgin
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 03:10:32

uncertain". Doubts about her story are not new: by the Middle Ages, hagiographer Jacobus de Voragine (author of the well-known Golden Legend) considered...

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Namdev
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:24:04

no references until a Bakhar of around 1538. According to Mahipati, a hagiographer of the 18th century, Sant Namdev's parents were Damashet and Gonai, a...

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Albert Le Grand
Selasa, 2026-04-14 05:28:32

Albert Le Grand (1599 in Morlaix – 1641 in Rennes) was a Breton hagiographer and a Dominican brother. He made his profession in the Rennes monastery before...

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Marbodius of Rennes
Rabu, 2026-03-25 18:09:23

France, then Bishop of Rennes in Brittany. He was a respected poet, hagiographer, and hymnologist. Marbod was born near Angers in Anjou, France, presumably...

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Luigi Lippomano
Kamis, 2025-11-06 13:21:25

Lipomanus) (1496, Venice – 15 August 1559, Rome) was an Italian bishop and hagiographer. Luigi Lippomano was the illegitimate son of Venetian patrician Bartolo...

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Shangqing School
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 05:36:35

school was a woman, Wei Huacun (251-334). According to her Shangqing hagiographers, her devotion to Daoist cultivation so impressed a number of immortals...

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Battle of Autun (640s)
Selasa, 2025-12-30 02:08:42

of Noyon and Sigiramn. While Fredegar seems hostile to Willebad, the hagiographers are hostile to Flaochad. The anonymous author of Fredegar may have been...

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John O'Hanlon (writer)
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 03:33:22

involved himself in Irish politics. He is best known as a folklorist and a hagiographer, and in particular for his comprehensive Lives of the Irish Saints. O'Hanlon...

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Smaragdus (name)
Selasa, 2024-10-29 18:30:12

Smaragdus (fl. 585–611), Byzantine administrator Ardo Smaragdus (died 843), hagiographer Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel (d. c. 840), Benedictine monk Smaragdis This...

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Basilla of Rome
Jumat, 2025-06-20 20:52:14

cemetery and catacombs of Saint Hermes on the Salarian Way near Rome. Hagiographer Agnes Dunbar states that Basilla was buried in a cemetery that she owned...

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Al-Sulami
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:40:04

Master), muffassir (Qur'anic commentator), shaykh of the Awliya, Sufi hagiographer, and a prolific writer. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He was of very high...

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Huanjing bunao
Rabu, 2025-12-17 10:04:38

belongs to the commentary and not the original text. The Quanzhen School hagiographer Zhao Daoyi (趙道一, fl. 1294–1307), compiler of the Lishi zhenxian tidao...

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Francis Marion
Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:56:48

Horry. The New York Times has described Weems as one of the "early hagiographers" of American literature "who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion...

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Anysia of Thessalonica
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:58:00

the Metaphrast in a volume of his work published in 947; according to hagiographer Alban Butler, Anysia's story lacks historical confirmation. During the...

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Vaishnavism
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:05:08

Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Hariram Vyas's Love for Vrindaban and what Hagiographers made of it. In: Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in...

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Godfrey Henschen
Rabu, 2026-05-27 17:01:56

Henskens (1601–1681), Latinized Godefridus Henschenius, was a Jesuit hagiographer from the Spanish Netherlands, one of the first Bollandists. Henschen...

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Saint Mungo
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:12:51

Church, Dearham. The Life of Saint Mungo was written by the monastic hagiographer Jocelin of Furness in about 1185. Jocelin states that he rewrote the...

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Carmelites
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:09:01

Daniel Papebroch was a member of the Bollandists, a group of Jesuit hagiographers who produced the Acta Sanctorum, which took an analytical approach to...

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Adomnán
Minggu, 2026-05-24 18:27:57

YOO-nən; from Naomh Adhamhnán), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of...

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Albertus Magnus
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:19:02

Bollstädt noble family is almost certainly mere conjecture by 15th-century hagiographers. Albert was probably educated principally at the University of Padua...

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Alban Butler
Selasa, 2026-03-24 19:13:14

October 1710 – 15 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Born in Northamptonshire, he studied at the English College in Douay...

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Athanasia of Aegina
Kamis, 2026-05-14 04:10:02

860 in Timia, Greece) was a Byzantine saint and abbess. Athanasia's hagiographer called her "this praiseworthy woman, who bears the name of immortality...

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The Mansion on the Hill
Selasa, 2025-11-25 12:11:28

over the inevitable fact that Springsteen isn't the wartless paragon hagiographers like Marsh claim." Nicholson, David (24 March 1997). "Books". International...

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Joan of Aza
Jumat, 2025-10-03 20:21:14

in populo suo ("an honoured and wealthy man in his village"); later hagiographers, elaborating on this, gradually developed identities for his father...

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Thomas à Kempis
Kamis, 2026-04-30 05:44:34

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1 May 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians...

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Folcard
Minggu, 2026-02-08 14:06:17

Folcard or Foulcard (fl. 1066) was a Flemish hagiographer. Folcard, a Fleming by birth, was a monk of St. Bertin's in Flanders (now Northern France), and...

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Pārśvanātha
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:15:08

if the legends grew side by side and mutually influenced the rival hagiographers" of Jainism and Buddhism. According to Glasenapp, it cannot be known...

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Brigid of Kildare
Rabu, 2026-06-03 07:48:22

Saint Brigid, a crozier of the sort used by abbots, and a lamp. Early hagiographers portray Brigid's life and ministry as touched with fire. According to...

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Acts of the Martyrs
Senin, 2025-05-12 21:37:46

century on, certain patterns or essential criteria are fixed, and the hagiographers adopt certain narrative characteristics that became the literary genre...

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Gregory of Sinai the Younger
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 04:25:28

1260s in Serbia according to his hagiographers. Although the exact date of his birth is unspecified, some hagiographers indicate that he was born between...

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Saint Ursula
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 14:29:02

church that once stood in Cologne was dedicated. The most important hagiographers (Bede, Ado, Usuard, Notker the Stammerer, Hrabanus Maurus) of the early...

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Jocelyn
Selasa, 2026-03-17 02:15:04

The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne". Goscelin, 11th-century hagiographer, also known as Jocelyn Joss Ackland, British actor whose birth name is...

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290
Senin, 2025-12-08 01:58:24

of Alexandria, Greek mathematician (d. 350) Vitus (or Guido), Roman hagiographer and martyr May 16 – Wu of Jin, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b...

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Ubba
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:40:32

occurrences of Ivar and Ubba in reports of religious atrocities. To medieval hagiographers and historians, these two figures were archetypal Viking invaders and...

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Ephrem the Syrian
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:00:40

part of the growing Christian community in the city, although later hagiographers wrote that his father was a pagan priest. In those days, religious culture...

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Idris (prophet)
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:35:33

Islamic tradition, although the name Hermes does not appear in the Quran. Hagiographers and chroniclers of the first centuries of the Islamic Hijrah quickly...

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Isho'dnah
Selasa, 2026-02-24 18:26:36

Ishoʿdnaḥ (Syriac: ܝܫܘܥܕܢܚ; fl. 9th century) was a historian and hagiographer of the Church of the East who served as the metropolitan bishop of Mayshan...

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Audoin (bishop)
Rabu, 2025-11-19 11:39:02

August 684), venerated as Saint Audoin, was a Frankish bishop, courtier, hagiographer and saint. He authored Vita Sancti Eligii which outlines the life and...

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Blood libel
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:47:07

of Norwich, was found dead in the woods with stab wounds. William's hagiographer, Thomas of Monmouth, falsely claimed that every year there is an international...

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Al-Kahf
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 09:42:34

sun as if it were setting into the ocean. Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer, Ibn Ishaq, reported in his traditional book (oral traditions) of biography...

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Pachomius the Serb
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 17:18:32

Пахомий Логофет; Greek: Παχώμιος Λογοθέτης), was a 15th-century Serbian hagiographer who, after taking monastic vows, was schooled on Mount Athos and mastered...

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Roger of Forde
Senin, 2026-01-05 22:31:42

Gustun, Roger Gustum, and Roger of Cîteaux was a Cistercian monk and hagiographer. Forde was a Cistercian monk of Ford in Devonshire. He went to Schonau...

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Tancred of Bologna
Sabtu, 2023-10-21 05:07:32

known to be false. Tancred's origins lie in Germany, where, if his hagiographers are to be believed, he was a soldier of middle rank at the court of...

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Levitation of saints
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:38:15

ambivalence expressed by theologians, canon lawyers, inquisitors, and hagiographers towards the powers that they were purported to have. By 1500, the image...

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Amda Seyon II
Selasa, 2026-02-24 20:07:32

writes, "Amda-Seyon's reign lasted for only six months, and even the hagiographer betrays a sense of great relief at the announcement of his death." Budge...

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Maalik
Selasa, 2026-06-02 05:21:22

anguish just by merely bearing witness of Maalik's ugliness. Medieval Hagiographer Ibn Ishaq has narrated hadith about Isra Mi'raj, where during his journey...

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Cinnia
Senin, 2023-09-18 09:46:01

her miracles, which occurred both during her life and after she died. Hagiographer Agnes Dunbar states that Cinnia might have been Patrick's sister, although...

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Charles XI of Sweden
Minggu, 2026-04-05 19:29:51

his sores and corpse didn't show the incorruptibility that medieval hagiographers believed to be a sign of Christian sainthood. In 1697 the same belief...

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Peter van der Bosch
Minggu, 2025-08-17 23:54:44

October 1686, in Brussels – 14 November 1736) was a Bollandist (Jesuit hagiographer). After studying the humanities at the College of Brussels from 1698...

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Gilbert Hunter Doble
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:49:36

1880 – 15 April 1945) was an Anglican priest and Cornish historian and hagiographer. G. H. Doble was born in Penzance, Cornwall, on 26 November 1880. His...

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Ibn Ishaq
Minggu, 2026-05-31 12:43:34

known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography...

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Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:00:54

known as "the man who fed the starved" (Arabic: هشم الجياع). Islamic hagiographers give an exotic narration concerning the birth of Hashim. This narration...

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Rita of Cascia
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:01:38

committing a mortal sin punishable by Hell. According to the 18th-century hagiographer Carlo Massini, it was Rita herself who had prayed that God would kill...

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History of Ireland
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:04:31

665) as to the end of an era. Antiquaries, brehons, genealogists and hagiographers, felt the need to collect ancient traditions before they were totally...

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Surdas
Selasa, 2026-05-26 21:33:34

Braj region, where Krishna is said to have spent his childhood. The hagiographer Nabha Dass, in his Bhaktamal, praised Surdas for his poetic skill, especially...

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Mozarabs
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:05:35

that Eulogius was not the instigator of these persecutions but merely a hagiographer. This is consistent with other historical records of two Christians executed...

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Kahina
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:59:53

to foresee the future. Over three centuries after her death, Tunisian hagiographer al-Mālikī seems to have been among the first to state she resided in...

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Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:11:44

approved by all the [theologians]." Both non-Hanbali and Hanbali Sufi hagiographers such as Hujwiri and Ibn al-Jawzi, respectively, also alluded to Ibn...

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Nicholas of Worcester
Senin, 2026-01-19 09:40:44

who had been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by King Edgar. The hagiographer Osbern had written that Edgar fathered his eldest son, Edward the Martyr...

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Sergius of Radonezh
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:18:17

manuscript entitled "The Life of St. Sergius of Radonezh" written by famous hagiographer Pachomius the Serb, also known as Pachomius Logothetes. The original...

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Sayyida Nafisa
Senin, 2026-03-23 03:56:35

the extent that people came from far and near to seek her blessings; hagiographers recount her decision to leave Egypt due to the throngs that came to...

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Krishnaism
Jumat, 2026-04-24 15:15:29

"Paradise Found, Paradise Lost: Hariram Vyas's Love for Vrindaban and what Hagiographers made of it". In Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (ed.). Pilgrims...

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Saint Michael in the Catholic Church
Senin, 2026-04-20 18:00:21

of the end times when the Antichrist will be defeated by him. Noted hagiographer Alban Butler, defined the role of Saint Michael: "Who is like God?" was...

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Gramos, Greece
Rabu, 2025-06-11 23:13:57

several craftsmen, and in the 17th century Grammousta was famous for its hagiographers. The development of the economy of Gramos led to the overpopulation...

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John Evangelist Stadler
Jumat, 2024-02-02 19:31:58

Diocese of Regensburg – December 30, 1868 in Augsburg) was a Bavarian hagiographer. After completing the humanities in the Gymnasium of Straubing in 1821...

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Reginald Pole
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:56:22

ISBN 0199510083. ODNB, "Reginald Pole"; "Geoffrey Pole". Pole and his hagiographers gave several later accounts of Pole's activities after Henry met Anne...

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Symeon Logothete
Minggu, 2025-10-26 07:58:19

poet. The identification of Symeon Logothete with the near-contemporary hagiographer Symeon Metaphrastes is far from certain. Symeon wrote a world chronicle...

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Walking in Memphis
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:09:44

conclude that 'Walking in Memphis' is a mite similar to fellow pop hagiographers Danny Wilson's 'Mary's Prayer' is to do Cohn a serious disservice. Firstly...

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Luther Bible
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:56:43

has occupied a permanent space in German history. According to some hagiographers, the popularity and influence of his translation gave Luther confidence...

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Edith of Wessex
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 16:21:06

lives of English saints and gave information about St Kenelm to his hagiographer, Goscelin. She died at Winchester on 18 December 1075. Matthew Paris...

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Benedict of Gloucester
Senin, 2024-10-28 23:21:58

Benedict of Gloucester (fl. 1120) was an English hagiographer, author of a life of St. Dubricius, mythological archbishop of Caerleon. Benedict was, according...

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Beatrice of Nazareth
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:03:51

ISBN 90-04-10290-6. Newman, Barbara (14 January 2016). "Hildegard and her Hagiographers: The Remaking of Female Sainthood". In Mooney, Catherine M. (ed.). Gendered...

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Filippo Ferrari
Selasa, 2024-05-07 05:28:17

Servite friar and scholar, known as a geographer, and also noted as a hagiographer. He was born at Oviglio in Piedmont. It is near Alessandria, and he was...

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Pope Fabian
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:44:36

the emperor's approval. According to the sixth-century historian and hagiographer Gregory of Tours Fabian sent out the "apostles to the Gauls" to Christianise...

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Mac Nisse of Connor
Minggu, 2025-05-04 23:02:38

bishop-abbot of Connor (Irish: Condere, in what is now Co. Antrim). Hagiographers say he was son of Fáebrach, son of Erc, who probably belonged to the...

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Diocletianic Persecution
Selasa, 2026-05-05 05:40:19

fallen. The 20th-century historian G.E.M. de Ste Croix argues that hagiographers portrayed a persecution far more extensive than the real one had been...

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Serbian Orthodox Church
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:29:01

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Minggu, 2026-04-05 17:00:04

Nicodemus the Hagiorite or Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Greek: Ὅσιος Νικόδημος ὁ Ἁγιορείτης; 1749 – July 14, 1809) was a Greek ascetic monk, mystic...

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Ardo Smaragdus
Jumat, 2026-02-06 10:06:33

Ardo Smaragdus (died March 843 AD) was a hagiographer. He entered the monastery of Aniane in Hérault as a boy, probably as an oblate, and was brought up...

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Bartholomew Albizzi
Selasa, 2025-08-12 02:25:34

Bartholomew Albizzi (died 1361) was an Italian Franciscan hagiographer. He is known for his life of Gerardo Cagnoli. Franaut entry Archived 2017-07-31...

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François-Hyacinthe Choquet
Kamis, 2024-01-25 14:14:56

François-Hyacinthe Choquet (ca. 1580–1645) was a Dominican hagiographer and spiritual author in the Spanish Netherlands. Choquet was born in Lille, in...

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Hucbald
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:33:48

Benedictine monk active as a music theorist, poet, composer, teacher, and hagiographer. He was long associated with Saint-Amand Abbey, so is often known as...

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Olivia of Palermo
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:08:20

Sicilian family, born either around 448 or in the 9th century AD. Local hagiographers state that she was born in the Loggia district of Palermo. From her...

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Broccán Clóen
Kamis, 2025-06-12 02:16:20

distinct, prove that the matter admits of no certainty. Some modern hagiographers are inclined to regard the Broccán of 8 July as the amanuensis and possibly...

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Giovanni Palatucci
Jumat, 2026-05-08 10:50:27

1939, Palatucci was chief of the Foreigners' Office. According to his hagiographers, he began falsifying documents and visas. The documentary report issued...

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Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi
Rabu, 2026-03-04 02:35:42

2023. Desai, pp. 230–89. Roberts, Andrew (26 March 2011). "Among the Hagiographers (A book review of "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With...

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Gregory of Tours
Minggu, 2026-05-03 00:38:29

Gregory of Tours (born Georgius Florentius; 30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian...

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Jonas of Bobbio
Senin, 2026-02-09 20:41:52

Jonas of Bobbio Abbot, Hagiographer, disciple of Columbanus Residence Bobbio Abbey Honored in Catholic Church Feast 28 May 28 June Major works Lives of...

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List of oracular statements from Delphi
Senin, 2026-04-20 11:45:22

intervention in extinguishing a funeral pyre was adapted by Christian hagiographers as a conventional literary topos in the martyrdom of saints. Herodotus...

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Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird
Selasa, 2026-03-31 12:02:53

1635), was an Irish Franciscan friar who was a noted poet, historian and hagiographer. He is considered the founder of Irish archaeology. Mac an Bhaird was...

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Saint Januarius in the Amphitheatre at Pozzuoli
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 06:14:16

Christians raised the ire of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. According to his hagiographers, Januarius was arrested and then survived various attempts to kill him...

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Nobility of Chios
Jumat, 2026-05-15 20:06:56

Megas Konostaulos (Grand Constable). A branch (Calaroni) were noted hagiographers; another branch settled in Venice and Andros. Coressi Italian Michel...

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Smile (The Beach Boys album)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 21:49:05

wrote in his 2016 memoir, "it speaks to the self-absorption of Brian's hagiographers and sycophants who view Smile only as a musical event. [...] I cannot...

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Genevieve
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 22:02:06

of Jerome; her vita appeared many centuries after her death, although hagiographer Donald Attwater states that her vita claims to be written by a contemporary...

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Noyale
Jumat, 2026-05-29 15:49:19

Noaluen, Nolwenn, Newlyn, Neulina, or Newlina. According to the earlier hagiographers, Noyale was English and Irish, the daughter of a British king. Modern...

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King's College School
Minggu, 2026-05-10 18:58:50

activist and advocate of Esperanto Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), Hagiographer, antiquarian and hymn writer, the best known of which is Onward, Christian...

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1268–1271 papal election
Selasa, 2025-10-21 06:38:47

accounts with skepticism, considering them as products of invention of the hagiographers of these two saints. Charles of Anjou was in Viterbo for the entirety...

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Edessa
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:06:53

encased in a silver casket. According to the late-6th-century Frankish hagiographer and bishop Gregory of Tours, the relics had themselves been brought from...

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William of St Albans
Rabu, 2025-06-04 23:08:29

William of St Albans (fl. 1178) was a Benedictine monk and hagiographer who wrote a history of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, the first such work to name...

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Saint Sebastian
Selasa, 2026-06-02 15:36:03

entry in Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in the 14th-century Legenda Aurea...

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Æthelred the Unready
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:31:04

Ælfthryth and Æthelred at Corfe in Dorset on 18 March 978. The monastic hagiographer Byrhtferth gives an account of Edward's death in his Life of St Oswald...

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Andrew of Crete
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:23:59

Christian parents, Andrew was mute until the age of seven. According to his hagiographers, he was miraculously cured after receiving Holy Communion. He began...

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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:17:46

Retrieved 26 December 2017. Roberts, Andrew (26 March 2011). "Among the Hagiographers". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 December 2017. "Review: Great...

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Pope Theonas of Alexandria
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:06:16

and the Holy Spirit are one person. Theonas excommunicated him. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Edmund the Martyr
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:34:15

which is composed of Abbo's hagiography, followed by Herman's. The hagiographer and musician, Goscelin, soon afterwards produced a revised version of...

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Christian perfection
Senin, 2026-02-23 17:12:51

transformed from "one degree of glory to another". Byzantine Orthodox hagiographer and hymnodist St Symeon the Metaphrast (10th c.) declared: Those who...

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Ruffo di Calabria
Kamis, 2026-04-16 18:25:16

generals — bearing the surname Rufus is historically attested. Early hagiographers of the Ruffo family, though not particularly reliable, listed among...

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Trasilla and Emiliana
Selasa, 2026-05-05 03:22:24

According to hagiographer Agnes Dunbar, "[Trasilla] was so constant at her prayers that her knees became hard like those of a camel". Hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould...

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Nishapur
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:02:24

(c. 1145 – c. 1221), was a Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer. Abu al-Qasim al-Habib Neishapuri – physician mid-15th century. Saadat...

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Gerald of Wales
Senin, 2026-05-25 22:56:33

Gerald of Wales (Latin: Giraldus Cambrensis; Welsh: Gerallt Cymro; French: Gerald de Barri; c. 1146 – c. 1223) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian...

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Thiofrid of Echternach
Minggu, 2026-02-01 11:36:25

Thiofrid (died 1110) was the Benedictine abbot of Echternach Abbey, and writer of works in several different areas. He is one of the few medieval writers...

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John bar Aphtonia
Selasa, 2026-02-24 18:26:58

John bar Aphtonia (c.480–537) was a Syriac monk of the Miaphysite persuasion who founded around 530 the monastery of Saint Thomas in Qenneshre ("Eagle's...

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Bede
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:28

from Gregory of Tours' earlier History of the Franks. Bede's work as a hagiographer and his detailed attention to dating were both useful preparations for...

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Bertilia
Minggu, 2025-11-02 17:55:50

and sister", helping the poor and practicing hospitality. According to hagiographer Agnes Dunbar, "they spent their lives and fortunes in works of mercy...

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Cunigunde of Luxembourg
Minggu, 2026-05-10 14:09:24

both certainly childless, it is supposed by some authors that later hagiographers mistakenly construed the fact to imply a virginal marriage. Others,...

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Valerie of Limoges
Minggu, 2026-01-04 01:58:34

converted her. This firmly places her in the Roman period, although later hagiographers had Martial himself sent to Gaul by Peter rather than by Pope Fabian...

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Pontius of Carthage
Minggu, 2025-12-21 11:13:29

Saint Pontius the Deacon Deacon, Hagiographer Born early 3rd century Carthage Died c. 262 Carthage Venerated in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church...

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Stephen of Tbeti
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 00:54:08

Shavsheti (now in eastern Turkey). He is praised by the contemporary hagiographer Giorgi Merchule as a writer in The Life of Grigol of Khandzta, but beyond...

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Wei Huacun
Kamis, 2025-08-14 08:13:12

of the Celestial Masters sect of Daoism. According to her Shangqing hagiographers, her devotion to Daoist cultivation so impressed a number of immortals...

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Cogitosus
Selasa, 2026-04-07 05:19:13

Saint Brigid. Muirchú moccu Machtheni names Cogitosus as the first Irish hagiographer. Cogitosus writes in fairly good Latin, much better indeed than might...

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Amarante, Portugal
Kamis, 2025-12-11 10:35:04

populated area with functioning institutions and religious life, though hagiographers from the 16th and 17th century portrayed it as an isolated and wild...

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Colgan
Senin, 2025-01-20 22:07:13

Australian cricketer Jenny Colgan, British novelist John Colgan, Irish hagiographer and historian Michael Colgan (disambiguation), multiple people Nick Colgan...

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Russian literature
Rabu, 2026-04-29 00:47:44

popular literary genre in Old Russian literature. The first notable hagiographer was Nestor the Chronicler, who wrote about the lives of Boris and Gleb...

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Sosipatra
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:02:19

second, that the story of her life is a veiled response to Christian hagiographers who were writing celebratory biographies of female Christian martyrs...

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Henri Congnet
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 04:02:16

Catholic priest and historian, also a member of the Société asiatique and hagiographer. Marie honorée dans les classes ou Mois de Marie (Grec-Latin) Extrait...

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Clotilde
Senin, 2026-05-11 07:53:07

is June 3. Clotilde, born around 474, was from Burgundy. According to hagiographer Alban Butler, the only source for Clotilde's biography, which was edited...

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Grata of Bergamo
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 19:20:57

Bergamo and Saint Adelaide, duke and duchess of Bergamo. According to hagiographer Agnes B.C. Dunbar, Grata's husband was "a great king in Germany". She...

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Druid
Minggu, 2026-05-10 18:50:21

error, Martin raised his hand again to let them proceed: "Thus", the hagiographer points out, "he both compelled them to stand when he pleased, and permitted...

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Máedóc of Ferns
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:03:56

Conaill at the Battle of Dún Bolg in 598, either (according to the hagiographers) through the intercession of his prayers or (according to the poets...

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Eadwig
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:30:20

the lives of Saints Dunstan and Oswald were adopted by post-Conquest hagiographers and monastic chroniclers. According to John of Worcester, "Eadwig, king...

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Hygeburg
Minggu, 2025-10-26 03:15:56

Hugeburc, Hugeberc, Huneberc or Huneburc, was an Anglo-Saxon nun and hagiographer at the Alemannian monastery of Heidenheim. She is "the first known Englishwoman...

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Ardo (given name)
Minggu, 2023-08-20 02:45:07

include: Ardo (died 720/721), Visigothic king Ardo Smaragdus, 9th-century hagiographer Ardo Ärmpalu (born 1980), Estonian basketball player Ardo Arusaar (born...

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Lübeck
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:44:59

south west of Lübeck. Laurentius Surius (1522–1578), Carthusian monk and hagiographer August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), pedagogue, theologian, founded the...

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Angelos Akotantos
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 04:58:52

Angelos Akotantos (Greek: Άγγελος Ακοτάντος; 1390–1457) was a Greek painter, educator, and protopsaltis. He painted icons in the maniera greca, at a time...

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Justin Popović
Rabu, 2026-03-25 15:56:47

Justin Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јустин Поповић, Serbian pronunciation: [jǔstin pǒpoʋitɕ], secular name Blagoje Popović, Serbian Cyrillic: Благоје Поповић;...

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Ladislaus I of Hungary
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:45:55

scholarly theory suggesting that Ladislaus had two wives. For centuries, hagiographers and historians have emphasized Ladislaus's prominent role in the consolidation...

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Frederick William Faber
Minggu, 2026-01-25 13:09:09

Frederick William Faber Cong. Orat. (28 June 1814 – 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymnwriter and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to...

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Tethbae
Jumat, 2025-09-12 18:02:31

explanation for the rule of Túathal Máelgarb, was corrected by later hagiographers; Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland, pp. 33–34. In the earliest...

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Nikolaj Velimirović
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 16:52:08

Nikolaj Velimirović (Serbian Cyrillic: Николај Велимировић; 4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December 1880] – 18 March [O.S. 5 March] 1956) was a Serbian Orthodox...

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The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich
Jumat, 2026-05-15 04:08:30

the Lord's Passion" and crucified. Like many other martyrologists and hagiographers of the medieval era, Thomas of Monmouth deliberately constructed William's...

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Siege of Nishapur (1221)
Minggu, 2026-03-29 18:30:57

terror and intimidation. The distinguished Persian poet, Sufi mystic, and hagiographer Attar of Nishapur was one of those slain during the Mongol massacre....

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704
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 03:33:07

Hyecho, Korean Buddhist monk (d. 787) Ibn Ishaq, Arab historian and hagiographer Li Fuguo, Chinese official (d. 762) Me Agtsom, emperor of Tibet (d. 755)...

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Aelred of Rievaulx
Minggu, 2026-04-19 02:35:44

Aelred of Rievaulx OCist (Latin: Aelredus Riaevallensis), also known as also Ailred, Ælred, or Æthelred; (1110 – 12 January 1167) was an English Cistercian...

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Shamsuddin Aflaki
Sabtu, 2025-02-15 10:09:16

Aflākī ʿĀrefī, was a 13th–14th-century Persian scholar, astronomer, and hagiographer best known for his biographical works on the Sufi mystic Rumi and his...

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Kamis, 2026-05-21 20:47:37

from Gregory of Tours' earlier History of the Franks. Bede's work as hagiographer, and his detailed attention to dating were both useful preparations for...

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Daniel de la Vierge-Marie
Jumat, 2026-03-20 01:06:26

spiritual pamphlets in Flemish and Latin, but above all a historian and hagiographer of his order, within the Touraine Reform. Daniel van Audenaerde was born...

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Banus
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 14:11:42

Flavius Josephus, a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer. Josephus wrote in his work Vita that Banus "lived in the desert, used...

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Jutta of Kulmsee
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:26:50

more intent upon virtue and the fear of God than upon worldly honor”. Hagiographer Robert Ellsberg called their marriage "happy", although at first, Jutta's...

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Gregorius Van Hoorde
Selasa, 2023-11-07 05:50:38

Gregorius Van Hoorde was an 18th-century Dominican hagiographer from Ghent in the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium). He was the author of a life of Thomas...

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Baudonivia
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 08:50:24

Baudonivia (fl. c. 600) was a nun and hagiographer at the convent of Holy Cross of Poitiers. Very little is known about her. She wrote a biography of Radegund...

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Hrotsvitha
Rabu, 2026-05-06 17:33:35

Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973) was a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon...

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Venantius Fortunatus
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:00:25

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530 – c. 600/609 AD; French: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (/vəˈnænʃəs ˌfɔːrtjəˈneɪtəs/...

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Arietta Papaconstantinou
Rabu, 2024-11-13 05:05:40

Colloquia (Washington 2009). ‘Writing true stories’: historians and hagiographers in the late antique and medieval Near East, co-editor with Muriel Debié...

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Alcuin
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:00:51

Alcuin of York (/ˈælkwɪn/; Latin: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar...

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Ciarán of Saigir
Rabu, 2026-01-14 12:01:40

The evidence of saints’ lives concerns miracles as conceived by later hagiographers. It is usually bad evidence for what they actually did, better evidence...

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Emil Bobu
Rabu, 2025-12-10 00:30:49

himself in the 1980s. Starting in 1982, as part of her personal court of hagiographers, he was the undisputed second-in-command of Elena Ceaușescu; described...

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Columba of Sens
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:11:22

receiving the name Columba (meaning "dove" in French). According to hagiographer Omer Englebert, she left Spain for France because she had been told it...

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Edward the Martyr
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:20:15

not say who was responsible, whereas post-Conquest chroniclers and hagiographers almost all blame Ælfthryth. The Passio and John of Worcester claim that...

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Agapius of Galatista
Selasa, 2026-04-28 23:08:13

providing formidable education. The same town was the birthplace of the hagiographers Galatsanoi, who painted many icons and murals in the Mount Athos Vatopedi...

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Mason Locke Weems
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 06:15:53

Bel Air. The New York Times has described Weems as one of the "early hagiographers" of American literature, "who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion...

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Jean Gamans
Kamis, 2025-08-21 01:18:34

Jean Gamans, SJ (8 July 1606 – 25 November 1684) was a German Jesuit hagiographer. Gamans was born on 8 July 1606, in either Ahrweiler or neighboring Neuenahr...

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Trésain
Senin, 2024-08-26 03:20:27

Irish priest who laboured with great zeal in Champagne (France). The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Menologium
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 05:17:16

such as Surius's Acta Sanctorum. Delehaye found that Symeon and other hagiographers of his era were largely conservative while compiling their works from...

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Ali Pasha of Yanina
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:32:58

actions against towns under French influence were rationalized by his hagiographer Haxhi Shehreti as efforts to suppress Greek insurrection on behalf of...

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Van den Bosch
Selasa, 2026-03-31 17:42:29

racer Van der Bosch Peter van der Bosch (1686–1736), Flemish Jesuit hagiographer Vandebosch Ingrid Vandebosch (b. 1970), Belgian model Boesch, Bösch,...

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Stephen of Liège
Rabu, 2024-12-25 09:51:26

who was the bishop of Liège from 901 until his death in 920. He was a hagiographer and composer of church music. His surviving compositions include three...

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Jujhar Singh
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 23:30:30

14 when he met his martyrdom after watching his brother's death. Sikh hagiographer, Rattan Singh Bhangu, compared Jujhar Singh's sacrifice at the Battle...

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Antony of Choziba
Jumat, 2024-02-16 22:41:15

Choziba, also called Antony the Chozibite (fl. 634), was a Byzantine hagiographer from the monastery of Choziba. A disciple of George of Choziba, he wrote...

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Muhammad and the Bible
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:03:50

good news about the close advent of Muhammad. Muslim historians and hagiographers (such as Ibn Ishaq) maintained that the people of Medina accepted Islam...

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Boris and Gleb
Kamis, 2026-05-07 07:52:15

the two 11th-century Lives of Boris and Gleb, ascribed to Nestor the Hagiographer and Jacob the Monk, they were younger children of Vladimir the Great...

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Bartholomew (name)
Rabu, 2026-03-25 17:22:30

Catholic Encyclopedia article Bartholomew Albizzi (died 1342), Franciscan hagiographer Bartholomew Rinonico (died c.1401), Franciscan chronicler Bartholomew...

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Saint Sidronius
Rabu, 2026-05-27 19:52:02

France, however, claimed also to possess the relics of this martyr. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Primitive Fathers...

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William of Ramsey
Rabu, 2024-07-31 18:24:34

William of Ramsey (fl. 1219) was a 13th-century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey (sometimes written Crowland), born at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire...

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Church of Saint Porphyrius
Minggu, 2026-05-17 14:14:43

Wood of the Cross of the Lord. He was described by the Roman Christian hagiographer Mark the Deacon, Porphyrius' companion from 395 until 420, as the Christianizer...

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Severian of Scythopolis
Sabtu, 2024-12-21 13:59:25

but inseparable natures, contradicting the archimandrite Eutyches. The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in the Lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal...

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Xu Guangqi
Selasa, 2026-06-02 02:14:33

family had saved enough to send him to a local school, where a later hagiographer records him piously upbraiding his classmates when they spoke of wanting...

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Roye, Somme
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 22:37:39

Curate of Saint-Georges church, Roye Abbot Jules Corblet (1819–1886), hagiographer for the diocese of Amiens. Communes of the Somme department Raymond Couvègnes...

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List of people from Palestine (historical region)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:28:32

early 6th century Cyril of Scythopolis Religion (Christianity) Monk, hagiographer Scythopolis (Beisan) c. 525 Tribunus Medicine Physician Palestine c....

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John of Egypt
Minggu, 2025-02-09 16:28:09

the next five years travelling and visiting monasteries. According to hagiographer Alban Butler, John was noted for performing seemingly absurd acts such...

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Buddhism and Theosophy
Jumat, 2026-02-27 06:52:28

Buddhism." Oldmeadow claimed: "Despite the legend which she and her hagiographers propagated, Blavatsky never stepped on Tibetan soil. Her claims that...

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Baring-Gould
Rabu, 2025-08-20 04:41:42

surname include: Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), English Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector, and eclectic scholar William...

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Stefan Dečanski
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 15:20:46

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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Maastricht
Rabu, 2026-05-27 01:14:21

(15th/16th century) – metal caster Henric van Veldeke (12th century) – poet, hagiographer In 2002 the municipal government officially adopted a local anthem (Limburgish...

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Joseph the Hymnographer
Jumat, 2026-04-03 14:04:58

probably soon after 816. The exact place of origin varied among different hagiographers. He was likely from the Val Demone of Sicily, where most of the Orthodox...

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Ruotger of Cologne
Rabu, 2025-08-20 11:27:21

Abbey of Saint Pantaleon in Cologne, where he worked as a historian and hagiographer, possibly even as schoolmaster. Ruotger was commissioned by Archbishop...

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St Gobhan
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:39:35

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore. The 17th-century Irish historian and hagiographer John Colgan wrote of this location: "Gobanus – Goba of Teg da-goba –...

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Sheikh family of Tungipara
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:13:22

families in rural Bengal and also a common invention amongst Indian Muslim hagiographers. Abdul Awal was also stated by the family to have been accompanied by...

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Francisco Ribera de Villacastín
Kamis, 2025-09-11 07:40:21

Francisco Ribera de Villacastín, SJ (1537–1591) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian, identified with the futurist Christian eschatological view. Ribera was...

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Ælfric of Eynsham
Jumat, 2026-05-22 01:40:25

Ælfric of Eynsham (Old English: Ælfrīc; Latin: Alfricus, Elphricus; c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and...

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Les Kurbas
Minggu, 2026-05-03 14:49:20

There is a tendency in the Ukrainian research to glorify Kurbas. Some hagiographers claim that Kurbas was a genius (he was indeed multi-talented) who anticipated...

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Nicodemus of Tismana
Jumat, 2026-04-03 14:07:36

Serbian and Russian watchmaker Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s–1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church Miroslav Gospel Gabriel the Hilandarian Constantine...

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August 18
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:51:19

Americas (date of death unknown) 1596 – Jean Bolland, Flemish priest and hagiographer (died 1665) 1605 – Henry Hammond, English churchman and theologian (died...

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Theophanu
Senin, 2026-03-16 08:36:32

also criticized by some other scholars, notably Odilo of Cluny, the hagiographer of her mother-in-law and rival Adelaide. Odilo even blamed her for the...

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Rodrigo de Cerrato
Kamis, 2025-09-11 08:33:52

Ciudad Real, before 1259 – after 1276) was a Castilian historian and hagiographer of the second half of the 13th century. Not much is known of his life...

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Edgar, King of England
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:29:35

distributed and made known to rich and poor. The late tenth-century hagiographer, Lantfred of Winchester, writing at about the time that Edgar died, stated:...

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Eadred
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:31:11

weight, and brought him unhappily to his deathbed. The eleventh century hagiographer Herman the Archdeacon described Eadred as "debilis pedibus" (crippled...

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Georgios Klontzas
Rabu, 2025-09-03 11:21:39

Greek scholar and hagiographer (1535–1608)...

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Kallinikos Stavrovouniotis
Jumat, 2026-03-27 11:58:19

renowned hagiography teacher passing his art and knowledge to newer hagiographers. An example of his teaching is a book he published about Byzantine painting:...

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Choquet
Rabu, 2025-02-12 14:47:27

neuroscientist François-Hyacinthe Choquet (ca. 1580–1645), Dominican hagiographer and spiritual author in the Spanish Netherlands Gustave Choquet (1915–2006)...

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Saint Elli
Minggu, 2025-11-02 17:05:25

Abbot of Llancarfan when Cadoc was preparing to leave for Benevento. The hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) argued that Llanelieu Church in Powys...

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Martyrs of Sigum
Kamis, 2026-05-07 08:07:31

addressed by that Holy Martyr–Bishop to these his suffering brethren. The hagiographer Alban Butler names the martyrs as Nemesianus, Felix, Lucius, another...

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Joseph Lelyveld
Senin, 2026-04-06 04:00:58

scrutiny". Hindustan Times. Roberts, Andrew (March 26, 2011). "Among the Hagiographers". The Wall Street Journal. Thite, Dinesh; Jadhav, Ashish (March 30,...

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Belina (virgin)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:03:52

is why she is called both Belina of Troyes and Belina of Landreville. Hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould described Belina as "a little peasantess". Belina...

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St. Martin's Day
Jumat, 2026-02-20 17:17:02

between St Martin and winegrowing by Gregory of Tours or other early hagiographers, St Martin is widely credited in France with helping to spread winemaking...

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Mirabai
Senin, 2026-05-11 17:15:12

ancient Braj, she manisfested a depth of unconditional love that the hagiographer Nabhadas noted as remarkable for a "degenerate age". While thousands...

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Sebaldus
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:14:38

the "Miracle of the Icicles." The story, as recounted by the English hagiographer Alban Butler, holds that during a snowy night in the dead of winter,...

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Leander of Seville
Minggu, 2026-05-17 14:59:28

have been a dux or governor of Carthago Spartaria, according to their hagiographers, though this seems more of a fanciful interpretation since Isidore simply...

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Ludovico Jacobilli
Senin, 2024-12-23 22:40:47

Ludovico Jacobilli ("Ludovicus Jacobillus" in Latin) was an Italian hagiographer and historian, a priest at Foligno. Jacobilli was born in Rome in 1598...

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John Capgrave
Senin, 2025-11-10 23:09:33

English hagiographer and theologian (1393–1464)...

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Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:25:45

pir was an otherwise unknown figure named Abu Taher Kurd. Subsequent hagiographers attempted to propagate a spiritual link between Ahmad and the celebrated...

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Osbern
Jumat, 2026-01-09 13:42:26

author Osbern of Gloucester (died 1200), English Benedictine monk and hagiographer Osbern Bokenam (died c. 1447), English poet Osbern fitzRichard, Anglo-Norman...

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Lawrence of Durham
Minggu, 2025-06-22 08:36:44

Durham (died 1154) was a 12th-century English prelate, Latin poet and hagiographer. Born in southern England, at Waltham in Essex, Lawrence was given a...

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Charles De Smedt
Senin, 2026-04-06 21:06:14

Smedt S.J. (6 April 1833 – 4 March 1911) was a Belgian Jesuit priest and hagiographer. He was a Bollandist, and is noted for having introduced critical historical...

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Filippo Gibbone
Kamis, 2026-03-12 09:21:33

"Vita del santo abate Antonino di Campagna." In addition to being a hagiographer Gibbone was also Cantor, and earned his doctorate in theology. Chaplain...

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Sabine (given name)
Selasa, 2026-03-10 01:32:06

German pair skater Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), English Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler...

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Hariulf of Oudenburg
Minggu, 2025-06-22 04:34:50

Hariulf (c. 1160 – 1143) was a Benedictine monk, hagiographer and historian. He was born in Ponthieu and given by his parents to the abbey of Saint-Riquier...

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Cornelius Thielmans
Senin, 2025-06-30 17:25:42

Cornelius Thielmans (c. 1570–1634) was a Franciscan hagiographer from the Habsburg Netherlands. Thielmans was born in Brussels around 1570. He joined the...

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1133
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 14:44:13

Bernard degli Uberti, Italian bishop December 18 – Hildebert, French hagiographer (b. 1055) December 21 – Guigues III (the Old), French nobleman Dirmicius...

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Epiphanius
Minggu, 2025-08-03 15:14:56

monastery, Constantinople Epiphanius the Wise (died 1420), Russian monk, hagiographer, and disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh Epiphanius Evesham (fl. 1570–c...

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South Queensferry
Minggu, 2026-05-31 20:04:54

celebrated for her piety. Regarding the origins of Queensferry, the hagiographer Turgot of Durham writes: Since the church of St Andrews is frequented...

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Herman (name)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:50:03

Salisbury (d. 1078) Hermann of Salm (d. 1088) Herman the Archdeacon, hagiographer, d. 1090s Herman II, Margrave of Baden (d. 1130) Herman van Horne (d...

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Religious views of Abraham Lincoln
Senin, 2026-06-01 13:59:18

scholars, he may have drawn the expression from George Washington's hagiographer, Parson Weems. In 1864, some former slaves in Maryland presented Lincoln...

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Bollandist
Jumat, 2025-10-31 04:29:42

The Society of Bollandists (Latin: Societas Bollandistarum; French: Société des Bollandistes) is an association of scholars, philologists, and historians...

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Guthlac of Crowland
Jumat, 2026-05-29 09:37:38

discusses in a 2015 essay the origins of the name Guthlac and whether his hagiographer Felix intended to convey that Guthlac was named after his tribe and land...

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Saint Sava
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:34:12

Saint Sava (Serbian Cyrillic: Свети Сава, romanized: Sveti Sava, Serbian pronunciation: [sʋɛ̂ːtiː sǎːʋa]; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1235), known as the...

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January 20
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:28:55

Sebastian, King of Portugal (died 1578) 1569 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (died 1629) 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic (died...

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Sudak
Rabu, 2026-04-01 18:14:21

Zichia and the Cimmerian Bosporus, "in the land of the Alans", while the hagiographer of Constantine the Philosopher mentions the tribe of Sougdoi, situated...

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Krishna Das
Senin, 2022-07-11 00:25:09

politician from Assam Krishna Das Kabiraj (1496–?), 16th century Vaishnava hagiographer, author of Chaitanya Charitamrita This disambiguation page lists articles...

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Heribert
Kamis, 2024-03-28 05:07:55

(1915-1943), Austrian footballer Heribert Rosweyde (1569-1629), Jesuit hagiographer Heribert Weber (born 1955), Austrian retired football player and manager...

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Osbert of Clare
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:22:42

Westminster Abbey and briefly abbot. He was a prolific writer of letters, and hagiographer. Osbert was born towards the end of the eleventh century at Clare, Suffolk...

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Treaty of Granada (1491)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:13:00

that these methods might be a breach of the Treaty. The 16th-century hagiographer Álvar Gómez de Castro described the approach as "methods that were not...

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Gerebern
Senin, 2026-03-09 16:51:33

of a village in Rhenish Prussia, where his relics are enshrined. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Doble
Selasa, 2021-02-16 15:30:15

proprietor of the Doble Steam Motor Corporation Rev. Gilbert Hunter Doble, hagiographer of Cornish Saints Sam Doble, rugby union full back Doble, Poland Doble...

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List of historians
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:01:26

(1161–1223), Polish historian Adam of Eynsham (died c. 1233), English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178–1241), Icelandic...

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Stefan Lazarević
Kamis, 2026-05-07 23:48:20

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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761
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 08:49:36

king of the Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland) Ibn Ishaq, Arab historian and hagiographer (or 767) Khurshid II, ruler (spāhbed) of Tabaristan (b. 734) Óengus I...

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Battle of Dun Nechtain
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:48:58

Battle of Two Rivers, recorded in the 8th century by Stephen of Ripon, hagiographer of Wilfrid. Ecgfrith was aided by a sub-king, Beornhæth, who may have...

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Church of Saint Panteleimon of Acharnai
Sabtu, 2025-05-03 06:25:24

centre of Athens and northern sections of the city. Giannis Karousos, The hagiographer of Saint Panteleimon Acharnon, article in newspaper KATHIMERINI (07/08/2013)...

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Landrada
Jumat, 2026-05-08 19:25:18

received several offers of marriage, which she refused because as her hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould states, "she had chosen a bridegroom not of this...

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San Giorgio dei Greci
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:05:32

Emporios, and Michael Damaskinos. Emanuele Tzane-Buniales, a priest and hagiographer from Crete, frescoed the Saints Simeon and Alypios, ascetic hermits,...

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Albanopolis, Armenia
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 00:50:21

was crucified or flayed alive. In Lives of the Saints, 18th-century hagiographer Alban Butler says "The popular traditions concerning St Bartholomew are...

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Amata of Assisi
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:24:29

and pleasure-seeking". Her parents wanted Amata to marry and as her hagiographer Agnes Dunbar states, she was "pleased with dress and worldly vanity"...

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John Moschus
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 03:56:42

John Moschus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μόσχος; c. 550 – 619; name from the Ancient Greek: ὁ τοῦ Μόσχου, romanized: o tou Moschou, lit. 'son of Moschos'), surnamed...

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St Mary's Abbey, Winchester
Sabtu, 2025-08-30 05:07:53

it, imposing the stricter Benedictine rule. According to Æthelwold's hagiographer, Wulfstan the Cantor, Æthelwold made a woman called Æthelthryth abbess...

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Dosifey
Senin, 2026-03-16 04:52:55

Solovki [ru] (died after 1514), hegumen of the Solovetsky Monastery, hagiographer Dosifey of Kiev [ru], also Dosifeya of Kiev, Orthodox saint, a woman...

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Osbert
Jumat, 2024-02-02 17:09:53

monk, elected prior of Westminster Abbey and briefly abbot, writer, hagiographer and forger of charters Osbert of Dunblane (died 1230), Bishop of Dunblane...

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Irmina of Oeren
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:20:09

and co-founder of a convent in Echternach (now eastern Luxembourg). Hagiographer Basil Watkins states that Irmina's 12th century biography is "unreliable"...

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Camille de Soyécourt
Kamis, 2025-11-13 04:43:49

damaged and had no doors or windows, with rubble everywhere. Later her hagiographers would say that the bloodstains of the victims of the Carmes Prison were...

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Radegund
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:00:20

pressed it on her body. The poet Venantius Fortunatus and the bishop, hagiographer, and historian, Gregory of Tours, were close friends with Radegund and...

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Arsuz
Jumat, 2026-04-17 16:29:23

Three-Chapter Controversy in 550; Theodore, about 600, mentioned by monk-hagiographer John Moschus. No later than the 15th century the diocese was nominally...

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October 5
Rabu, 2026-05-13 23:32:06

French poet and author (born 1546) 1629 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (born 1569) 1714 – Kaibara Ekken, Japanese botanist and philosopher (born...

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Caradoc of Llancarfan
Senin, 2025-12-15 17:04:21

Caradoc of Llancarfan (Welsh: Caradog o Lancarfan) was a Welsh cleric and author associated with Llancarfan in Wales in the 12th century. He is generally...

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John Canaparius
Senin, 2024-11-04 20:08:01

is used to reconstruct the archetype of the Vita. Notger of Liège, a hagiographer himself, apparently had knowledge of the earlier handwritten Vita from...

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1140s in poetry
Selasa, 2026-01-13 23:40:09

Neyshapuri (died 1221), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer 1147: Raimbaut of Orange (died 1173), Occitan troubadour (approx.) 1149:...

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Lóegaire mac Néill
Minggu, 2025-01-19 07:10:18

the dates of Saint Patrick with the kings named by Patrick's earliest hagiographers, Muirchú moccu Mactheni and Tirechán. Both writers had Patrick come...

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Ibn al-Jawzi
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:18:36

jurisconsult, preacher, orator, heresiographer, traditionist, historian, judge, hagiographer, and philologist who played an instrumental role in propagating the Hanbali...

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Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra
Selasa, 2026-04-14 11:39:48

of the details of Jorge's subsequent life and career are marred by hagiographers of Manuel, eager to portray the king's rival in the worst possible light...

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Origins of the Kingdom of Alba
Jumat, 2025-06-06 01:37:39

of St Cathróe of Metz, the hagiographer recounts the mythological origin of the saint's people, the Gaels. The hagiographer recounts that they landed in...

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Adelard of Ghent
Minggu, 2024-02-04 10:51:18

Adelard of Ghent was an early 11th-century monk and hagiographer from the Benedictine monastery Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent, now in modern-day Belgium....

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Allegorical interpretations of Genesis
Selasa, 2026-05-26 03:42:00

following comments on the "science" of Genesis and the Fathers: as the hagiographers in profane things make use of a popular, that is, a non-scientific form...

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Battle of Antioch on the Meander
Selasa, 2026-05-26 15:58:38

of the Meander Valley. The size of the Seljuk force is unknown. The hagiographer George of Pelagonia in his hagiography estimates it at 60,000, clearly...

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List of people from Northampton
Kamis, 2026-05-14 21:28:30

the Affirmation. Alban Butler (1710–1773), Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer, born in the town Dallas Campbell (born 1970), TV presenter, studied...

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Rodingus
Senin, 2022-06-13 06:20:00

distinguishing them, the one from the other, is often very difficult. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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September 12
Kamis, 2026-03-19 13:48:40

and politician (born 1577) 1665 – Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596) 1672 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (born...

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Stefan Milutin
Kamis, 2026-02-12 13:08:07

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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1439
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 02:08:48

June – The "Miracle of the Moose" takes place, according to Russian hagiographers. July 6 – Pope Eugene IV issues the Bull of Union with the Greeks (Laetentur...

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Jacobus de Voragine
Senin, 2026-01-26 00:25:08

Jacobus de Voragine, OP (c. 1230 – 13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler...

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Gurbilases
Minggu, 2026-05-24 11:26:43

The Gurbilases genre falls into a category of works produced by local hagiographers in the Punjabi-language. The Gurbilas literature are written in verse...

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William of Montevergine
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:37:57

people who met the saint were astonished to see such a docile wolf. Hagiographer Tommaso Costo (1591) wrote that king Roger II of Sicily had heard about...

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Aredius
Sabtu, 2025-08-09 03:10:47

him. People in the area believed him to have the gift of healing. His hagiographer, Gregory of Tours, says they crowded to Aredius "like bees to a hive"...

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Nicholas of Sion
Kamis, 2025-11-06 15:45:31

was reputed to have performed healing miracles. The identity of his hagiographer is not known, but scholars believe his biography was written sometime...

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Simeon
Rabu, 2026-01-21 08:14:00

(866–927), Bulgarian tsar Symeon Metaphrastes (10th century?), Byzantine hagiographer Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022), Eastern Orthodox saint Simeon (abbot)...

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Palladius of Galatia
Jumat, 2026-04-03 04:05:32

Palladius of Galatia (Greek: Παλλάδιος Γαλατίας) was a Christian chronicler and the bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia. He was a devoted disciple of Saint...

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Albert (given name)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 11:44:49

(1833–1863), French Navy officer Albert Le Grand (1599–1641), Breton hagiographer and preacher Albert Le Guillard (1887–1958), French composer and conductor...

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Morlaix
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:24:32

of the former. born in the 16th century Albert Le Grand (1599-1641), hagiographer born in the 18th century Lannux de la Chaume family, merchants, shipowners...

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Reginald of Durham
Jumat, 2024-04-19 02:58:21

Reginald of Durham (died c. 1190) was a Benedictine monk and hagiologist, a member of the Durham Priory and associated with Coldingham Priory in Scotland...

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Basilian monks
Kamis, 2026-05-14 05:01:02

Chronicle stops at A. D. 842. There were, besides, a large number of monks, hagiographers, hymnologists, and poets who had a large share in the development of...

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Assyrian continuity
Rabu, 2026-06-03 14:43:57

people in the Sasanian regions, and thus it is unsurprising that these hagiographers sometimes avoided the term. Syriac Christians who lived within metropolitan...

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1050
Senin, 2026-04-20 16:53:12

Peaceful"), king of Norway (approximate date) Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer (d. 1090) Peter the Hermit, French priest (approximate date) Sophia of...

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Barsimaeus
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:15:39

Christian by the President Lysias, under the Emperor Trajan, A.D. 114. The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and...

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Armenius (writer)
Senin, 2025-06-16 22:40:35

Armenius (Ancient Greek: Ἄρμενιος) was an early Christian writer and priest who, along with fellow priest Virinus, wrote in Greek an account of the martyrdom...

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Serbs in Russia
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:00:15

the first mechanical public clock in Russia) and Pachomius the Serb (hagiographer and translator) were some of the notable Serbs in Russian medieval history...

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Orontius of Lecce
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:18:45

three kilometers from Lecce, on 26 August. Justus was also martyred. Hagiographer Frederick George Holweck says the account is "unreliable". Orontius is...

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Of Solovki
Rabu, 2026-03-18 03:27:15

Solovki [ru] (died after 1514), hegumen of the Solovetsky Monastery, hagiographer Herman of Solovki Irenarch of Solovki [ru] (died 1628), hegumen of the...

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List of Catholic priests
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:24:21

Persecution. Adamnán of Iona 624 – 704 An abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of...

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Speusippus, Eleusippus and Melapsippus
Selasa, 2026-06-02 02:32:55

the triplets, Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Melapsippus; St. Neo their hagiographer, St. Leonilla, their grandmother (or possibly, sister), and St. Junilla...

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Grimald
Jumat, 2025-01-03 10:01:02

Frankish monk and chancellor Grimaldus Aemilianensis (fl. c. 1100), Spanish hagiographer Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562), English poet and dramatist Grimaldo (disambiguation)...

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William Shawcross
Kamis, 2026-05-28 15:24:30

expose of Henry Kissinger's destruction of Cambodia, become Murdoch's hagiographer?" David Cornwell, better known by his nom de plume John le Carré, wrote...

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Vatatzes
Minggu, 2026-03-22 13:05:56

became megas domestikos (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army). The hagiographer of the Nicaean emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes (r. 1221/22–1254), identified...

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Sayed Ziaul Haq
Kamis, 2025-10-30 10:58:26

Ziaul Haq's attitude get a remarkable change remaining calm and quiet. Hagiographers noted him as a Majjub-e-Salek (Bengali: মজ্জুবে ছালেক দরবেশ/ Arabic:...

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Chest of Saint Simeon
Jumat, 2026-04-03 08:14:14

of stealing the finger of a saint dates at least from the time of the hagiographer Gregory of Tours. Ancient Romans consecrated every joint of the fingers...

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Valeria Maximilla
Kamis, 2026-01-29 21:49:25

persecutor of Christians. In another similar version by 15th-century Italian hagiographer Petrus de Natalibus, the queen was named "Faustina". She was accompanied...

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628
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 03:05:20

they will be contained in his book, the Quran. Adomnán, Irish abbot and hagiographer (d. 704) Benedict Biscop, Anglo-Saxon abbot (d. 690) Gao Zong, emperor...

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List of people with given name Peter
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 13:14:50

American Catholic priest Peter van der Bosch (1686–1736), Flemish Jesuit hagiographer Peter Verdaguer y Prat (1835–1911), Catholic bishop Peter Verhaegen (1800–1868)...

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1635 in Ireland
Senin, 2025-10-27 05:47:22

month. November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, writer, historian and hagiographer (b. c. 1593) Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland...

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Theodora of Alexandria
Jumat, 2026-05-22 11:14:16

during the 5th century in Alexandria, during the reign of Emperor Zeno. Hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould states that Theodora's story might have been embellished...

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Demetria of Rome
Jumat, 2026-05-08 06:49:45

it, "attempts were made to pervert them from the faith". According to hagiographer Alban Butler, the sisters, who spent their arrest in prayer and fasting...

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Axiotis
Senin, 2026-05-18 12:47:44

Axiotis (1840–1918), Greek writer Stratis Axiotis (1907–1994), Greek hagiographer Melpo Axioti (1905–1973), Greek writer Akchoté Origins of the Name Distribution...

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Adalhelm
Jumat, 2025-02-21 07:44:31

century), Frankish nobleman Adalhelm of Séez (9th century), bishop and hagiographer Adelhelm Odermatt (1844–1920), founder of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon...

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Agoard and Aglibert
Senin, 2024-11-11 03:52:42

more so. But A.D. 273 seems likely as the year of their triumph. The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and...

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Witch of Berkeley
Rabu, 2025-10-01 03:06:12

ISBN 978-1-84383-030-6. Smith, William (2017). "William of Malmesbury, Monk, Historian, Hagiographer and Man of Letters: American Benedictine Review". American Benedictine...

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Jarosław
Rabu, 2026-05-20 23:39:27

Roman Catholic priest Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist Janina Skirlińska (1907–1993), Polish artistic gymnast Sam...

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Gerard of Csanád
Minggu, 2026-05-17 14:54:36

mentioned in the Long Life, implying that this was only an invention by the hagiographer who wanted to create a strong connection between the three most important...

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Saint Fris
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:15:01

which may have contributed to the popularity of the Saint's cult. Hagiographers of the 17th century subsequently placed the legend in a historical context...

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Dwynwen
Senin, 2026-01-26 00:18:29

later assign her feast day to 25 January. However, the 17th-century hagiographer Nicolas Roscarrok placed "St Dwin" on 13 July, suggesting that Dwin and...

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Ottobeuren Abbey
Minggu, 2026-01-11 10:26:33

Jacob Molitor, the learned and saintly prior, d. 1675 Albert Krey, the hagiographer, d. 1713 Augustine Bayrhamer, d. 1782, historian Maurus Feyerabend, d...

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Aimoin
Selasa, 2026-03-17 02:14:41

include: Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (died 889), 9th-century monk and hagiographer Aimoin of Fleury (c. 960–c. 1010), 10th-century French chronicler This...

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Execution of Cicely Ormes
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 15:19:28

ISSN 0361-0160. Bartlett, I. Ross (1 December 1995). "John Foxe as Hagiographer: The Question Revisited". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 26 (4): 771–789...

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Frederick George Holweck
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 03:01:27

15, 1927) was a German-American Catholic parish priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian. Monsignor Holweck contributed some articles to...

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Armenians in Belgium
Jumat, 2026-01-16 21:23:34

Armenian bishop who visited town of Tongres, east of Brussels. Belgian hagiographers such as Macaire mention Armenian preachers in Ghent in the year 1011...

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Adeloga of Kitzingen
Jumat, 2026-05-08 18:51:36

biography of her written by an anonymous author and published by Flemish hagiographer Jean Bolland. After her death, she was succeeded at the Kitzingen convent...

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Joceline (name)
Selasa, 2023-09-19 01:54:00

Canadian politician Joceline of Furness (fl. 1175–1214), English Cistercian hagiographer Jocelin of Wells (died 1242), Bishop of Bath Josceline Percy, 11th Earl...

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Coirpre mac Néill
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 01:15:09

explanation for the rule of Túathal Máelgarb, was corrected by later hagiographers. In the earliest surviving list, that in the Baile Chuind, Túathal appears...

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The Second Nun's Tale
Minggu, 2026-02-01 00:52:08

Margery Kempe", Susan Morgan states that, "medieval theologians and hagiographers viewed female sin as intrinsically bodily and sexual, emanating from...

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Wilhelm Hünermann
Selasa, 2025-07-22 12:26:27

thirty biographical novels, Hünermann was one of the most prolific hagiographers of the 20th century. His works sold more than three million copies and...

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Odo of Glanfeuil
Selasa, 2025-11-11 08:27:04

ninth-century Benedictine abbot of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a historian, and hagiographer. He entered the Abbey of Saint Maur de Glanfeuil (in Le Thoureil, Maine-et-Loire)...

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Attleborough
Selasa, 2025-10-07 02:39:52

it was fortified at an early date. According to the mid-12th century hagiographer of Saint Edmund, Geoffrey of Wells, Athla was the founder of the Ancient...

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Anstrudis
Kamis, 2026-05-28 12:01:18

of them after her death. Life was not much easier for Anstrudis; her hagiographer wrote, "the hardships foreshadowed by Sadalberga were visited upon her...

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Venray
Senin, 2026-05-04 00:50:56

Order of St. Augustine Godfrey Henschen (1601–1681) a Belgian Jesuit hagiographer, one of the first Bollandists Harry Peeters (1931–2012), a historian...

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Cerrato
Senin, 2026-03-30 22:16:21

Buenos Aires Rodrigo de Cerrato (1259–1276), Castilian historian and hagiographer Vinny Cerrato, the former Executive Vice President for Football Operations...

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Fructuosus
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:47:29

("You were"). They were then sentenced to be burnt. The 18th-century hagiographer Alban Butler wrote that while he was being led to his execution "on a...

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Kennicott Bible
Rabu, 2025-12-03 14:30:55

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), the books of the Prophets and Hagiographers, as well as the grammatical treatise Sefer Mikhlol by Rabbi David Kimhi...

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Eastern Christian monasticism
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 21:06:41

Chronicle stops at 842 AD. There were, besides, a large number of monks, hagiographers, hymnologists, and poets who had a large share in the development of...

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Byzantine literature of the Heraclian dynasty
Rabu, 2025-11-26 23:56:49

defended orthodoxy and authored poetry and hagiographies. The leading hagiographer of the early 7th century, Bishop Leontios of Neapolis, wrote accessible...

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Christianity and paganism
Selasa, 2026-02-10 06:18:56

Catholic Encyclopedia states that "Ancient, medieval and early modern hagiographers were inclined to exaggerate the number of martyrs. Since the title of...

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Syriac literature
Senin, 2026-04-06 08:23:16

of East Syriac Historiography". Writing True Stories: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 43–75...

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Drogo
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:28:39

Count of Apulia and Calabria Drogo of Saint-Winnoc [nl] (11th century), hagiographer Drogo of Boves [fr; nl] (11th century), lord of Boves Drogo (bishop of...

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Danilo II (Serbian Archbishop)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:56:35

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint. With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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Nicodemus (given name)
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 07:08:09

Balkans Nicodemus the Hagiorite (1749–1809), Greek Orthodox philosopher, hagiographer, and monk Nicodemus of Dalmatia (1845–1915), Serbian Orthodox bishop...

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Xenophon of Robeika
Jumat, 2025-09-05 01:35:56

who probably lived in the 12th century and, in turn, was confused by hagiographers with Anthony of Rome, who also lived in the 12th century. The only accounting...

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Columba of Cornwall
Selasa, 2026-04-14 18:48:41

Lodan and Queen Manigild, probably in Lothian, Scotland. According to hagiographer David Nash Ford, her parents' name may be corrupt forms of names of King...

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Burgundofara
Jumat, 2026-05-08 19:19:30

medieval scholar Jo Ann McNamara, Burgundofara's life was recounted by the hagiographer, Jonas of Bobbio, who probably knew her. In 610, when Burgundofara was...

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1714
Rabu, 2026-04-29 15:38:45

non-conformist minister (b. 1662) June 28 – Daniel Papebroch, Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1628) July 4 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian librarian (b. 1633) August...

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Culture of Israel
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:23:33

CE and Revelation in c. 95 CE. Josephus was a scholar, historian and hagiographer who was born in 37 CE in Jerusalem, Judea. He recorded Jewish history...

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Baert
Kamis, 2025-08-21 01:56:30

French Flemish politician François Baert (1651–1719), Belgian Jesuit hagiographer Frans Baert (1925–2022), Belgian lawyer and philosopher Jan Baert (1650–1702)...

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Holweck
Selasa, 2020-06-09 08:55:52

Holweck (1856–1927), German-American Roman Catholic priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian* Oskar Holweck [de] (1924–2007), German artist and...

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Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:17:30

these methods might be a breach of the Treaty, and sixteenth-century hagiographer Álvar Gómez de Castro described the approach as "methods that were not...

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List of English translations from medieval sources: C
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:06:15

Capgrave, John. John Capgrave (1393–1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and theologian. He was known for his Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading...

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Muirchú moccu Machtheni
Kamis, 2025-10-16 23:09:20

Muirchú is to be believed, this would make him one of the earliest Irish hagiographers of any saint, second to Cogitosus. Muirchú's written sources for his...

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Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:20:57

Benedict. The monastery of Malmedy is considered by historians and hagiographers to be slightly older than the monastery of Stavelot, with the town claiming...

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Domentijan
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 15:58:56

Serbian and Russian watchmaker Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church Miroslav Gospel Gabriel the Hilandarian Constantine...

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Teodosije the Hilandarian
Jumat, 2026-05-01 06:26:12

1246 Kingdom of Serbia Died 1328 (aged c. 82) Hilandar Occupation monk, scribe, hagiographer Language Serbian Old Church Slavonic Years active 1292–1310...

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Sulpicius Severus
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:58:20

New York: Paulist Press. Stancliffe, Clare (1983). St. Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in Sulpicius Severus. Oxford: Clarendon Press....

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Savvas Xiros
Rabu, 2026-01-21 14:20:27

over the phone, since she herself she now practices the profession of hagiographer. He himself deals intensively with mathematics, having written a book...

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Cult of saints in Anglo-Saxon England
Kamis, 2026-06-04 14:15:48

descriptions of miracles that it provided being copied by some Anglo-Saxon hagiographers, such as Bede in his Life of St Cuthbert. The Lindisfarne Gospels, produced...

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Eve of Wilton
Senin, 2025-08-25 08:31:35

Ludi - Eve virginis Epicedium". Goscelin, who had become an itinerant hagiographer, wrote a book addressed to Eve titled Liber confortatorius (Book of Consolation)...

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Bartholomew of Pisa
Kamis, 2021-08-26 08:01:08

Bartholomew of Pisa may refer to: Bartholomew Albizzi (died 1342), Franciscan hagiographer Bartholomew Rinonico (died c. 1401), Italian Franciscan and chronicler...

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Oduvald
Minggu, 2024-12-22 20:32:04

Melrose. He was a contemporary of Saint Cuthbert. He died A.D. 698. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Esus
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:12:01

and detached the saints' limbs from his body. Thévenot suggested the hagiographer of St Marcel and scholiast of the Commenta drew from the same source...

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1601
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:42:32

Bloemaert, Dutch painter (d. 1672) June 21 – Godfrey Henschen, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1681) June 23 – Anna Maria of Ostfriesland, German noblewoman (d...

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Petrus (given name)
Minggu, 2026-03-01 03:21:00

1521–1597), Dutch physician Petrus de Natalibus (fl. 1400), Venetian hagiographer Petrus Peregrinus or Peter de Maricourt (fl. 1269), French writer on...

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Helena of Skövde
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:49:24

expense, most of the church in Sköfde in southcentral Sweden. According to hagiographer Agnes B. C. Dunbar, she built a portico between the church and its tower...

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Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili
Kamis, 2026-03-26 14:54:03

Beni Mellal, died 1229/30) was a Sufi mystic, influential jurist and hagiographer from Morocco. He is the biographer of many Sufi saints. His best known...

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List of people with given name Daniel
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 08:26:03

servant and politician Daniel Papebroch (1628–1714), Flemish Jesuit hagiographer Daniel Pappoe (born 1993), Ghanaian footballer Daniel Parantac (born...

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Theodora of Thessaloniki
Selasa, 2026-06-02 09:20:15

translated from the communal tomb of the nuns to a separate sarcophagus. The hagiographer describes the scene similar to the tomb of Christ. According to Gregory...

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Tevaram
Senin, 2026-02-02 01:16:58

 286–293 with footnotes. Peterson 1989, pp. 292–293, Quote: "The Saiva hagiographers speak of several incidents in which the Jains used their influence on...

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Demetrius of Rostov
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 22:53:35

Demetrius of Rostov (Russian: Димитрий Ростовский, romanized: Dimitry Rostovsky, Ukrainian: Димитрій Ростовський, romanized: Dymytrii Rostovskyi, secular...

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Werburgh
Jumat, 2026-05-08 19:30:08

goose to life after it had been eaten, as recounted by the medieval hagiographer Goscelin. A stained glass window in the Church of St Peter and St Paul...

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Piotr Skarga
Rabu, 2026-05-20 23:29:10

2 February 1536 – 27 September 1612) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian...

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1221 in poetry
Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:22:11

Song dynasty Attar Neyshapuri (born 1145), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer Poetry portal Poetry List of years in poetry...

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Cainnech of Aghaboe
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:28:37

known as Eunan), the ninth abbot of Iona who died in 704. Adomnán was a hagiographer and his greatest work Vita Columbae or Life of St. Columba contains references...

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Konstantin Mihailović
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:33:19

Serbian and Russian watchmaker Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church Marios Philippides; Walter K. Hanak (2011). The...

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Apronia of Toul
Kamis, 2025-11-06 20:25:21

bishop in Toul in northeastern France, from whom she received the veil. Hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould said of Apronia: "Drawn by her love of Christ to...

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1600s (decade)
Rabu, 2025-12-24 21:38:01

Bloemaert, Dutch painter (d. 1672) June 21 – Godfrey Henschen, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1681) June 23 – Anna Maria of Ostfriesland, German noblewoman (d...

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Heriger of Lobbes
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 09:06:44

Herigerus (c. 925 – 31 October 1007) was a Benedictine monk, often known as Heriger of Lobbes for serving as abbot of the abbey of Lobbes between 990 and...

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List of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church
Kamis, 2026-05-14 16:40:24

Wise, a monk from Rostov, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and hagiographer of Saint Sergius and Saint Stephen of Perm Eudoxia of Moscow, wife of...

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List of Serbs
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:42:51

Turks and Christians. Pachomius the Serb (Paxomij Logofet), prolific hagiographer who came from Mount Athos to work in Russia between 1429 and 1484. He...

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Giani Gian Singh
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:44:30

1822 – 24 September 1921) was a 19th-century Sikh historian, literatus, hagiographer, martial artist, theologian, and scholar. Gian Singh wrote over a dozen...

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Caesarius of Heisterbach
Senin, 2026-03-23 05:40:53

Caesarius of Heisterbach (c. 1180 – c. 1240), sometimes erroneously called, in English, Caesar of Heisterbach, was the prior of a Cistercian monastery...

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Ayn al-Tamr
Kamis, 2025-02-13 04:18:58

oldest churches in the Middle East. Ibn Ishaq, a Muslim historian and hagiographer. Hasan of Basra, a well-known Muslim preacher, theologian, scholar. Ibn...

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Stephen of Ripon
Rabu, 2026-02-25 08:31:44

Stephen of Ripon was the author of the eighth-century hagiographic text Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ("Life of Saint Wilfrid"). Other names once traditionally...

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List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:25:22

grammarian of the Arabic language Ibn Ishaq (704–761), historian and hagiographer Ibn al-Haam al-Misri Al-Miqdisi [ar] (1352–1412), Mathematician Ibn Sa'id...

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Antonius (monk)
Kamis, 2025-12-25 00:25:34

Antonius (Ancient Greek: Ἀντώνιος) was a Greek monk, and a disciple of the Syriac ascetic saint Simeon Stylites. He lived around the year 460 AD. Antonius...

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Luigi (given name)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 18:46:42

the Roman Catholic Church Luigi Lippomano (1500–1559), cardinal and hagiographer Luigi Locati (1928–2005), Catholic missionary and bishop Luigi Macchi...

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Hippolyte Delehaye
Rabu, 2025-08-20 12:59:58

Hippolyte Delehaye, SJ (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit who was a hagiographical scholar and an outstanding member of the Society of...

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1055
Rabu, 2025-07-23 01:51:20

Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd (approximate date) Hildebert, French hagiographer and theologian (d. 1133) Ida of Austria, German duchess and crusader...

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Hugh of Lincoln
Senin, 2026-05-18 09:43:37

Grenoble), the Mother House of the Carthusian order. Adam of Eynsham, Hugh's hagiographer, tells us that Hugh: [G]azed with awe at this place, situated almost...

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The Naked Pilgrim
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:02:25

Statesman review The Scotsman, "Not so much the Naked Pilgrim as the haughty hagiographer" (review), 30 June 2003. The Scotsman, "Naked brilliance of braying Brian"...

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Eustratius of Constantinople
Selasa, 2024-10-29 21:25:52

Eustratius or Eustratios (Ancient Greek: Εὐστράτιος; fl. 582–602) was a hagiographer, theologian and priest of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Eustratios...

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On Buildings
Selasa, 2026-05-26 19:38:11

awareness of the treatise. At the end of the 10th century, the Byzantine hagiographer Symeon Metaphrastes quoted the treatise. The first Latin edition, prepared...

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List of women writers (A–L)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:01:30

folklorist Charlotte Dease (1873–1953, Ireland), prayer collector & hagiographer Djamila Debèche (1926–2010, Algeria/France), nv. & es. Nicole de Buron...

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Frisian–Frankish wars
Jumat, 2026-05-15 15:59:58

appeared. They slewed the aged archbishop because, according to Boniface's hagiographer, they believed the chests he carried with him contained gold and other...

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Margaret Ward
Kamis, 2026-04-30 03:59:29

was of a good family" and was described as a gentlewoman. According to hagiographer Alban Butler, Ward was a victim of the renewed persecution in England...

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Daniel and Verda
Selasa, 2026-04-14 02:24:27

honoured in the East, who suffered under King Sapor II (A.D. 344). The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Óengus of Tallaght
Sabtu, 2025-05-10 22:04:06

Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first...

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Madelberte of Maubeuge
Jumat, 2026-05-08 19:29:38

Aldetrude, as abbess of Maubeuge. Her feast day is 7 September. The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal...

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Saint Simeon
Jumat, 2025-01-17 04:42:12

Orthodox saint Symeon the Metaphrast (died c. 1000), Byzantine historian, hagiographer, and saint Symeon the Studite (918–986 or 987), Byzantine monk and spiritual...

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Konrad Kügelin
Kamis, 2025-05-29 01:33:42

provost of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Bad Walsee [de], and hagiographer of Elizabeth of Reute. He was a Canon Regular of Saint Augustine who...

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Gregorio López (hermit)
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:14:26

Antonio Francisco de Zafra. Bilinkoff, Jodi (2010). "Confessors as Hagiographers in Early Modern Catholic Culture". Spirituality and Culture in Early...

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Oxford Historical Monographs
Senin, 2026-03-09 00:54:32

Society in the Early Sixteenth Century 1983 Nigel Saul St. Martin and His Hagiographer: History and Miracle in the Sulpicius Severus 1984 Euan Cameron The Reformation...

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Simeon ben Azzai
Selasa, 2026-03-10 18:09:51

those of the Prophets, and those of the Prophets with those of the Hagiographers; and therefore the words of the Torah rejoice as on the day when they...

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Mildburh
Senin, 2026-03-02 14:02:12

produced at about this time, and possibly soon afterwards the well-known hagiographer Goscelin wrote his Vita Mildburga into which he incorporated a pre-existing...

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Aurea of Córdoba
Kamis, 2025-07-17 23:42:21

herself truly a Christian", was arrested again and was executed in 856. Hagiographer Agnes Dunbar compared Aurea's regret and public confession during her...

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Vita Ædwardi Regis
Minggu, 2026-05-24 21:10:04

Barlow, Frank (2004). "Folcard (d. after 1085), monk, musician, and hagiographer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National...

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François Baert
Selasa, 2026-01-27 08:53:55

François Baert (25 August 1651 – 27 October 1719) was a Jesuit hagiographer, one of the Bollandists, from the Spanish Netherlands. Born in Ypres on 25...

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Serbia in the Middle Ages
Selasa, 2026-05-19 20:28:51

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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Kirill of Turov
Rabu, 2026-03-04 00:30:19

Kirills who may have been active but were not recorded by chroniclers and hagiographers. Matters are further complicated by the fact, that these labels appear...

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Saint Asella
Jumat, 2026-02-20 22:17:30

According to historian Claude Fleury, Asella never spoke to any man. As hagiographer Agnes Dunbar stated, "She worked with her hands and sang psalms". Despite...

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Amalberga of Temse
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 01:02:47

ward of Saint Landrada, founder of Munsterbilsen Abbey. According to hagiographer Sabine Baring-Gould, "From early childhood she was distinguished for...

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Thomas of Cantimpré
Selasa, 2026-03-24 02:31:13

Thomas of Cantimpré (Latin: Thomas Cantimpratensis or Thomas Cantipratensis) (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 1201 – Louvain, 15 May 1272) was a Flemish Catholic medieval...

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Adela of Pfalzel
Minggu, 2026-05-24 00:00:18

near Trier, which she entered after her husband died. According to hagiographer Agnes Dunbar, however, the monastery was built for her by Dagobert II...

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Ferdinand the Holy Prince
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:49:52

1 June 1443 and died a few days later, on 5 June. According to his hagiographers, on the evening before his death, Ferdinand reported seeing a vision...

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Anne Hope
Jumat, 2026-02-06 12:43:22

Anne Hope (1809 – 1887), née Anne Fulton, was an English historian. She was born in Calcutta, where her father, John Williamson Fulton (1769–1830), was...

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Saint Bain
Rabu, 2024-03-20 02:00:13

of Fleury or St. Benoit-sur-Loire. He passed away about A.D. 711. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Theoctistus
Kamis, 2026-01-15 23:10:35

842 to 855 Theoktistos the Stoudite (14th century), Byzantine monk, hagiographer, and hymnographer Teoctist I of Moldavia (c. 1410 – 1477), Metropolitan...

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Aldobrandesca
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 20:58:05

charitable deeds until the day she died on April 26, 1309. According to hagiographer Alban Butler, her tomb was at one time "a great centre of devotion" at...

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Mariana de Jesús de Paredes
Rabu, 2026-05-27 15:43:21

indicative as to where her spiritual heart lay. According to her Jesuit hagiographer, she did not go to the Franciscan church to receive the scapular and...

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Wulfhad and Ruffin
Rabu, 2025-05-28 17:40:50

them at Stone, Staffordshire, England. Their feast day is 24 July. The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote the following account in his The Lives of the Fathers...

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1569
Selasa, 2026-02-10 10:49:28

Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir. January 20 – Heribert Rosweyde, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1629) January 22 – Lucio Massari, Italian painter (d. 1633) February...

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Diocese of Nice
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:58:25

mentions Syagrius, the Life written in the early seventeenth century by the hagiographer Vincenzo Barrali Salerna (fl. 1577–1613), a monk of Lerins, who states...

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Wells (name)
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 16:14:00

Geoffrey of Wells (Galfridius Fontibus), mid-twelfth-century English hagiographer George Wells (disambiguation) Georgeann Wells, American basketball player...

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Bolland
Selasa, 2026-02-24 15:09:33

football player Jean Bolland (1596–1665), Belgian Jesuit priest and hagiographer Kevin Bolland (born 1959), American race car driver Marc Bolland (born...

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Asterius, Claudius and Neon
Jumat, 2026-05-08 08:06:51

were martyred along with two women, Domnina and Theonilla a widow. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) recorded what is known of the trio and their...

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De Smedt
Rabu, 2024-09-18 04:12:26

fiction author Charles De Smedt (1833–1911), Belgian Jesuit priest and hagiographer Christine De Smedt (born 1963), Belgian dancer and choreographer Eline...

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AD 767
Selasa, 2026-04-21 05:50:21

Constantine II, patriarch of Constantinople Ibn Ishaq, Muslim historian and hagiographer (or 761) Ibn Jurayj, Muslim scholar (approximate date) Muqatil ibn Sulayman...

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St Sidwells
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 03:07:44

number 340 page 320 Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar British...

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Dimitrios Kalligeris
Selasa, 2026-03-17 16:27:51

lived in Thebes, Greece. He owned a restaurant and he was an amateur hagiographer. He died in a car accident in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia. "Μου ξανάρχονται...

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Hermas (freedman)
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 17:50:37

It is not even certain that the writer's name was really Hermas. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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Panagia Kanala
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:50:37

example of post-Byzantine art and is considered to be the work of the hagiographer Emmanuel Skordilis. The icon measures 1 by 0.8 metres (3 ft 3 in by 2 ft...

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List of Anglicans
Minggu, 2026-05-17 02:26:18

Westminster 1592–1597) Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), English priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and folk song collector Fred Barnes (b. 1943)...

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John Bollard
Jumat, 2020-05-15 21:10:23

sometimes referred to as John Bolland, Flemish Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer John Bollard (Catholic priest) (born 1965), American Roman Catholic priest...

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Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty
Selasa, 2026-03-24 19:06:09

Prophet". The Life of St. Grigol Khandzteli, written in 951 by the Georgian hagiographer Giorgi Merchule, is next to refer to the tradition of the Davidic origin...

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Henschen
Jumat, 2025-01-31 02:27:38

with the surname include: Godfrey Henschen (1601–1681), Belgian Jesuit hagiographer Helena Henschen (1940–2011), Swedish designer and writer Lars Vilhelm...

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I. M. Rașcu
Minggu, 2025-06-29 04:27:12

I. M. Rașcu (most common rendition of Ion Rașcu; March 31 [O.S. March 19] 1890 – 1971) was a Romanian poet of Symbolist verse, cultural promoter, comparatist...

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Women in Taoism
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:23:30

and Those Who Embodied the Tao through the Ages), compiled by the Yuan hagiographer Zhao Daoyi (趙道一, fl. 1294–1307) of the Quanzhen school. The text contains...

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Byrhtferth
Selasa, 2026-01-06 13:49:06

Byrhtferth (Old English: Byrhtferð; c. 970 – c. 1020) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in...

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Jacques Bouillart
Selasa, 2026-05-05 07:45:39

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against Jean Baptiste du Sollier [ca], a Jesuit hagiographer, who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention...

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Angelos (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2024-04-27 06:01:06

lawyer Angelos Akotantos, 15th-century Byzantine-Cretan icon-painter and hagiographer Angelos Anastasiadis (born 1953), Greek football head coach Angelos Basinas...

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Ottonian Renaissance
Minggu, 2026-04-19 17:59:20

entrusting its direction to his friends Folcuin and Heriger, a poet, hagiographer, theologian, scientist, and friend of Gerbert. The scholaster Egbert...

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Petrus de Natalibus
Jumat, 2026-03-27 00:26:26

Pietro Ungarello di Marco de' Natali, better known as Petrus de Natalibus (d. 1400 x 1406), was an Italian bishop and the author of a collection of lives...

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Stefan Dragutin
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:52:05

Thomson, Francis J. (1993). "Archbishop Daniel II of Serbia: Hierarch, Hagiographer, Saint: With Some Comments on the Vitae regum et archiepiscoporum Serbiae...

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Godric of Finchale
Rabu, 2026-04-08 21:29:00

"Reginald of Durham and St. Godric of Finchale: a study of a twelfth-century hagiographer and his subject", Reading PhD thesis, 1979. Victoria M. Tudor, "Reginald...

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Dorotej of Hilandar
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 15:59:13

Serbian and Russian watchmaker Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church Miroslav Gospel Gabriel the Hilandarian Constantine...

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Grójec
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:17:07

the lower leagues. Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer and polemicist. Asher Rabinowicz of Przedbórz (ca.1720–1798) an 18th-century...

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Sumbat II of Klarjeti
Minggu, 2026-02-01 09:22:42

of Klarjeti. Little is known of his life. The 10th-century Georgian hagiographer Giorgi Merchule and an insertion in the Gospels manuscript from the Parkhali...

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Noriyuki Higashiyama
Selasa, 2026-02-24 10:04:52

Shigure 1997 Kamio Saumanosuke Both flowers and storms - The Marriage Hagiographer's Tale of Sato and Keisuke 1999 Keisuke Tsumura Millennium Shock 2000...

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Abbo of Fleury
Senin, 2026-05-18 06:17:43

Abbo or Abbon of Fleury (Latin: Abbo Floriacensis; c. 945 – 13 November 1004), also known as Saint Abbo or Abbon, was a monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey...

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Pachomius (disambiguation)
Selasa, 2023-01-24 05:58:57

(Пахомий Серб, also known as Pachomius Logothete), fifteenth century hagiographer in the employ of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pachomius I of...

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List of people with given name Piotr
Rabu, 2026-04-29 17:51:09

Polish sprint canoeist Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, and polemicist Piotr Skiba (born 1982), Polish football goalkeeper Piotr...

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Dumitru Karnabatt
Kamis, 2026-05-14 02:45:01

Dumitru or Dimitrie Karnabatt (last name also Karnabat, Carnabatt or Carnabat, commonly known as D. Karr; October 26, 1877 – April 1949) was a Romanian...

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Lazar the Serb
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 17:38:00

restored the Agiou Pavlou monastery Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s–1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church His name was Lazar (Russian and Serbian: Лазар)...

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Zenobios and Zenobia
Jumat, 2024-12-20 19:03:19

martyrologies. Hippolyte Delehaye suggested a possible compilation by an unknown hagiographer who put together parts from the hagiography of Saints Cosmas and Damian...

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Edith of Wilton
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:05:30

considers Goscelin's story about Edith similar to many stories told by hagiographers, told to emphasise both the royal status of many saints and their choice...

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Luke of Steiris
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:28:21

was ejected from his oratory in the Peloponnese after a rainstorm, his hagiographer comments that 'God perhaps arranged these things beneficially, lest dwelling...

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Maccai
Rabu, 2025-11-19 09:35:09

disciple of Saint Patrick who founded a monastery in the Isle of Bute. The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs,...

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843
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 23:49:45

Muslim scholar and historian (b. 752) Ardo Smaragdus, Frankish abbot and hagiographer Bridei VI, king of the Picts (Scotland) Fergus mac Fothaid, king of Connacht...

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Martyrs of Carthage under Valerian
Senin, 2025-04-21 10:13:14

Jean Bolland. Their account has been reproduced at length by several hagiographers. The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of...

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Odo
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 03:26:44

Champlitte (died in 1204) Odo of Glanfeuil (fl. 850s–860s, abbot and hagiographer Odo I of Beauvais (died 881), West Frankish abbot and bishop Odo of Cluny...

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Persian hagiography
Jumat, 2022-08-05 19:39:58

supposed miracles performed by its subject. Important later Persian hagiographers included: Aflākī (d. 761/1360), a disciple of Rumi's grandson who wrote...

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Budoc
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:31:25

monk. They later returned to Brittany, landing at Porspoder near Brest. Hagiographer G.H. Doble is of the opinion that Budoc was a once-famous abbot whose...

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