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Hagiology   Listen
noun
Hagiology  n.  The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hagiology" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ wooes the soul, had made this feeling of divine love familiar. Toward the end of the 13th century a collection of lives of saints, a sort of English Golden Legend, was prepared at the great abbey of Gloucester for use on saints' days. The legends were chosen partly from the hagiology of the Church Catholic, as the lives of Margaret, Christopher, and Michael; partly from the calendar of the English Church, as the {28} lives of St. Thomas of Canterbury, of the Anglo-Saxons, Dunstan, Swithin—who is mentioned by Shakspere—and Kenelm, ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... Rhymer took his territorial designation, and whose story later became fused with her myth in the old Scottish ballad of Thomas the Rhymer. Thus we observe how it is possible for a pagan myth to become an incident in Christian hagiology. ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence



Words linked to "Hagiology" :   legend, fable



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