• century, Christian writers augmented Josephus' histories with hagiographic and legendary material. Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony is a continuation...
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  • Look up legendary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Legendary may refer to: Legend, a folklore genre Legendary (hagiography) Anjou Legendarium J. R...
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    A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy' and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical...
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    Legend (redirect from Legendary stories)
    to be read [on a certain day, in church]") were hagiographical accounts, often collected in a legendary. Because saints' lives are often included in many...
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    abilities to work on behalf of the common Jewish populace. From the legendary hagiography of the BeShT as one who bridged elite mysticism with deep social...
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    held during Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, the Philippines. Hagiographical fragments on St. Longinus from 11th–13th century found in Dubrovnik...
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    Johanne Chrysostomo (1537) to analyse the pitfalls of the Christian Legendary (hagiography). John Chrysostom died in the city of Comana in 407 on his way to...
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  • manuscripts survive, preserving nearly three hundred hagiographic works. A legendary is any hagiographic collection. Earlier scholarship attempted to identify...
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    story of the stag first appears in one of the later legendary hagiographies (Bibliotheca hagiographic Latina, nos. 3994–4002) and has been appropriated...
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    the church. There is a huge corpus of Ephrem pseudepigraphy and legendary hagiography in many languages. Some of these compositions are in verse, often...
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