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

Hagiography is the literary genre of biographies about holy people. In Islamic Persia, hagiography developed as a genre during the eleventh century CE...

definite spot. Thus one may speak of the legend of Alexander or of Caesar." Hagiography (accounts of the lives of saints) is not intended to be history, but...

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

The permissibility of depictions of Muhammad in Islam has been a contentious issue. Oral and written descriptions of Muhammad are readily accepted by all...

Patrophilos. He is presented as a miracle-working holy man in his early hagiographies. The cult around this figure formed comparatively early, as he is described...

Genesius of Rome is a legendary Christian saint, once a comedian and actor who had performed in plays that mocked Christianity. According to legend, while...

The Hagiography of St. Simeon (Serbian: Житије светог Симеона, romanized: Žitije svetog Simeona), or Life of Stefan Nemanja, is a hagiography (or biography)...

Budai is a nickname given to the Chinese monk Qici (Chinese: 契此) who is often identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism. With the...

Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM (c. 1580 – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate Church who on 12 November 1623 was...

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

Druze, as well as some Muslims as a martyr of monotheistic faith. In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military...

Retrieved December 10, 2014. Bellafante, Ginia (May 15, 2009). "The Hagiography of the Dragon, a Continuing Saga". The New York Times. Andreeva, Nellie...

William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909 – December 24, 1965) was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing...

Saint Anastasia (died December 25 A.D. 304) is a Christian saint and martyr who died at Sirmium in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia)...

Donar's Oak (also Thor's Oak or, via interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what...

allegiance from Advaitic Agamic Shaivism to Brahmanical Advaita orthodoxy. Hagiographies dating from the 14th-17th centuries deified him as a ruler-renunciate...

Raniero (died 30 December 1077), was an bishop of the Catholic Church in Italy, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, after his name was included...

rise of Christian monasticism. Monastic ideals spread from Egypt in hagiographical literature, especially the Life of Anthony. Most European monasteries...

Hagiography Old English Martyrology Lives of Saints On the Resting-Places of the Saints Visio Leofrici Homilies Blickling Homilies Lambeth Homilies Vercelli...

Ambrose Edward Barlow, O.S.B. (1585 – 10 September 1641) was an English Benedictine monk. He is one of a group of saints canonized by Pope Paul VI who...

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

Tiburtius, according to Christian legend, was a Christian martyr and saint. His feast day is 11 August which is the same as Saint Susanna. The two were...

Traditions Folk saint Equal-to-apostles Relic Catacomb saints Translation Hagiography List of saints Catholic Child Orthodox Titles Symbology of the Saints...

Eastern Orthodox and Syriac Orthodox churches. He is known from a Greek hagiography. The Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit places Elias' birth...

the Great Martyr Saint Marina the Great Martyr. An illustration in her hagiography printed in Greece depicting her beating a demon with a hammer. Date on...

year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing. Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic...

the rank of General of the Armies. In 1809, Mason Locke Weems wrote a hagiographic biography to honor Washington. Historian Ron Chernow maintains that Weems...

Dubhán was a 5th-century Brittonic priest and pilgrim, for whom Hook Head (originally Rinn Dubháin) is named. According to tradition, Dubhán came from...

firstborn Jesus. This has been the most common Protestant position. The hagiography of Mary and the Holy Family can be contrasted with other material in...