A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy', and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical... 23 KB (2,637 words) - 20:12, 21 April 2024 |
Hagiography is the literary genre of biographies about holy people. In Islamic Persia, hagiography developed as a genre during the eleventh century CE... 6 KB (766 words) - 12:39, 5 August 2022 |
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... 17 KB (2,504 words) - 04:45, 20 January 2024 |
Longinus (redirect from Longinus (Christian hagiography)) held during Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, the Philippines. Hagiographical fragments on St. Longinus from 11th–13th century found in Dubrovnik... 19 KB (1,916 words) - 11:09, 14 April 2024 |
Depictions of Muhammad (redirect from Islamic hagiography) The permissibility of depictions of Muhammad in Islam has been a contentious issue. Oral and written descriptions of Muhammad are readily accepted by all... 78 KB (8,885 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024 |
Genesius of Rome (section Hagiography) 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... 8 KB (835 words) - 20:42, 25 November 2023 |
Life of Stefan Nemanja (redirect from Hagiography of St. Simeon) The Hagiography of St. Simeon (Serbian: Житије светог Симеона, romanized: Žitije svetog Simeona), or Life of Stefan Nemanja, is a hagiography (or biography)... 4 KB (409 words) - 01:22, 7 April 2021 |
Expeditus (section Hagiography) Expeditus (died 303), also known as Expedite, was said to have been a Roman centurion in Armenia who was martyred around April 303 in what is now Turkey... 12 KB (1,304 words) - 14:04, 18 January 2024 |
Budai (section Hagiography) Budai (Chinese: 布袋; pinyin: Bùdài; Korean: 포대, romanized: Podae; Japanese: 布袋, romanized: Hotei; Vietnamese: Bố Đại) is a nickname given to the ancient... 18 KB (2,011 words) - 17:39, 8 April 2024 |
Saint Tiburtius (section Hagiography) 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... 4 KB (470 words) - 03:53, 6 April 2024 |
Josaphat Kuntsevych (section Hagiography) 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... 56 KB (5,813 words) - 14:26, 14 April 2024 |
Retrieved December 10, 2014. Bellafante, Ginia (May 15, 2009). "The Hagiography of the Dragon, a Continuing Saga". The New York Times. Andreeva, Nellie... 12 KB (814 words) - 18:28, 19 April 2024 |
William M. Branham (section Hagiographical) 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... 137 KB (15,969 words) - 00:07, 25 April 2024 |
a saint's name: Acta Sancti ("Deeds of Saint") N.; a common title of hagiography works actiones secundum fidei action follows belief i.e., "we act according... 2 KB (3,520 words) - 06:47, 7 April 2024 |
Military saint (section Hagiography) military-related patronages. In Late Antiquity, other Christian writers of hagiography, like Sulpicius Severus in his account of the heroic, military life of... 17 KB (1,196 words) - 21:08, 21 January 2024 |
Adi Shankara (section Vijayanagara Empire and Vidyaranya (14th century) - creation of traditional (hagiographic) views) allegiance from Advaitic Agamic Shaivism to Brahmanical Advaita orthodoxy. Hagiographies dating from the 14th-17th centuries deified him as a ruler-renunciate... 126 KB (14,734 words) - 20:23, 27 April 2024 |
Elias of Heliopolis (section Hagiography) Eastern Orthodox and Syriac Orthodox churches. He is known from a Greek hagiography. The Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit places Elias' birth... 9 KB (1,125 words) - 20:37, 6 November 2023 |
Saint Alban (section Hagiography) Saint Alban (/ˈɔːlbən, ˈæl-/; Latin: Albanus) is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, for which reason he is considered to be the... 58 KB (7,557 words) - 22:57, 10 April 2024 |
Anastasia of Sirmium (section Hagiography) 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)... 13 KB (1,454 words) - 13:03, 22 March 2024 |
who was later described as Saint Kenelm in a late eleventh-century hagiography and venerated in the later Middle Ages. Kelly 2004. "Charter S 147".... 3 KB (219 words) - 11:45, 18 February 2024 |
Saint Quentin (section Hagiography) Quentin (Latin: Quintinus; died c. 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint. The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen... 5 KB (459 words) - 00:28, 28 February 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,053 words) - 03:36, 7 April 2024 |