Hagiography
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or leader, or an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.[1][2][3] Early Christian hagiographies might consist of a biography or vita, a description of the saint's deeds or miracles or martyrdom or a combination of these.
By extension the word has come to mean an excessively flattering biography of a person that the author wishes to promote.
Hagiography Media
Page from the Vita Sancti Martini by Sulpicius Severus
Calendar entries for 1 and 2 January of the Martyrology of Oengus.
Example of Greek Orthodox visual hagiography. This is one of the best known surviving Byzantine mosaics in Hagia Sophia – Christ Pantocrator flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist made in the 12th century.
References
- ↑ Rico G. Monge. Hagiography and Religious Truth: Case Studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic Traditions (2016)Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 7–22. ISBN 978-1-4742-3579-2.
- ↑ Jeanette Blonigen Clancy. Beyond Parochial Faith: A Catholic Confesses (2019)Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-5326-7282-8.
- ↑ Rapp, Claudia. Byzantine Religious Culture (2012)BRILL Academic. p. 289–311. ISBN 978-90-04-22649-4. doi:10.1163/9789004226494_017.