Crossword-Solution: HAGIOGRAPHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hagiography | n. | Same Hagiographa. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “HAGIOGRAPHY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| martyrology | 1 answer |
| hagiology | 1 answer |
| STUDY of martyrs and saints | 2 answers |
| STUDY and writings of the lives of martyrs and saints | 2 answers |
| BIOGRAPHY of saints | 2 answers |
| real-life story | 3 answers |
| Seminary study | 4 answers |
| A BIOGRAPHY THAT IDEALIZES OR IDOLIZES THE PERSON | 11 answers |
| life history | 13 answers |
| personal account | 17 answers |
| Life Story | 18 answers |
| Biography | 18 answers |
| profile | 21 answers |
| memoir | 22 answers |
| "___ Adventures . . . " | 22 answers |
| Sketch | 38 answers |
| Journal | 44 answers |
| Writing | 61 answers |
| History | 78 answers |
| Life | 101 answers |
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Sentences with HAGIOGRAPHY (5)
Jacques de Voragine, Definitor of the Order of Saint-Dominic, and Archbishop of Genoa, collected in the thirteenth century the various legends of Catholic saints, and formed so rich a compilation that from all the monasteries and castles of the time there arouse the cry: “This is the ‘Golden Legend.’” The “Legende Doree” was especially opulent in Roman hagiography.
Shea.) In the annals of no other Christian nation do we see so many examples of the power of the ministers of God to punish the wicked and help and succor the good, as we do in the hagiography of Ireland.
The Bollandists, accustomed as they were to meet with miracles of that kind, in the lives they published, found in Irish hagiography such a superabundance of them, that they refused to admit into their admirable compilation a great number already published or in manuscript.
There is further an element of magic in his miracles which differentiates them from Elijah's, and throws them more upon the level of mediaeval hagiography; such, e.g., as the floating of the iron upon the water, or the raising of a dead man by contact with the prophet's bones.
Zimmer, and he has brought a large number of facts together which show that such an episode is a quite credible fragment of history.[25] The second version, though LB calls it _miraculum insolitum_, is one of the commonplaces of hagiography.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2012).