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  • ===Biography/Hagiography=== Pachomius was born in 292 in Thebes (Luxor ... According to his hagiography, he was swept up in a Roman army recruitment ...
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  • == Hagiography == As mentioned above, the definitive facts concerning ... account (contained in every extant hagiography), he bolsters the faith ...
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  • Remembering Dogen: Eiheiji and Dogen Hagiography] The Journal of Japanese ... Remembering Dogen: Eiheiji and Dogen Hagiography] The Journal of Japanese ...
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  • composed in his name and legendary hagiography. Some of these compositions ... In the Eastern Orthodox scheme of hagiography, Ephrem is counted as ...
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  • poems of saints' lives, or hagiography. The major works of hagiography, the Andreas, Elene, Guthlac, and Juliana are to be found in the ...
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  • localities. In this way, writing hagiography was both a means of conveying ... the stories included in Anthony's hagiography have become source material ...
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  • Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher who founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that was once prolific ...
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  • The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread widely in Europe in the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian ...
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  • based" initiatives, as described in her hagiography: By the help of God, [Margaret] made him most attentive to the works of justice, mercy ...
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  • ==Anna Jane Hagiography== Gurney's daughter appears to have engaged in considerable promotion of her father's claim to various of his ...
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  • as a result of the tradition preserved in his hagiography. In fact, the missions that he established in Denmark and Sweden were virtually destroyed ...
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  • Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – April 11?, 1079) is the patron saint of Poland. In life, he was the Bishop ...
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  • Ages. These tales are collected in books of hagiography such as the Golden Legend or the works of Caesar of Heisterbach. These miracle tales made ...
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  • Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of Anastasius Bibliothecarius. Studia antiqua australiensia, v. 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006 ...
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  • In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ... Nino of Cappadocia, who in Georgian hagiography is a relative of Saint ...
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  • and Wang Qiao (王僑, or Zi Qiao; 子僑). In later Taoist hagiography ... Biographies of Spirit Immortals) is a hagiography of xian. Although it was ...
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  • Saint Patrick (fifth century C.E.) was a Christian missionary involved in the evangelization of Ireland. Born in Britain but captured as a youth ...
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  • * LaBauve, Maurice. Hesychasm, word-weaving, and Slavic hagiography: The literary school of Patriarch Euthymius. Hébert Sagner, 1992. ISBN 9783876905 ...
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  • Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd or Bride - c. 451–525) was an Irish nun, abbess, and founder ...
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  • mythic proportions, which is codified in their hagiography. The Mahasiddha are acknowledged as the founders of many Indian and Buddhist traditions and ...
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