Definition of Hagiographer. Meaning of Hagiographer. Synonyms of Hagiographer

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Definition of Hagiographer

Hagiographer
Hagiographer Ha`gi*og"ra*pher, n. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. --Shipley.

Meaning of Hagiographer from wikipedia

- Middle Ages. Irish hagiographers wrote primarily in Latin while some of the later saint's lives were written in the hagiographer's native vernacular Irish...
- October 1710 – 15 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire...
- play, he calls for Saint Peter to open the gates. The eccentric English hagiographer and antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) wrote "Gabriel's Message"...
- Jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Gr****: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 342–347 – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of...
- of Lavardin (c. 1055 – 18 December 1133) was a French ecclesiastic, hagiographer and theologian. From 1096–97 he was bishop of Le Mans, then from 1125...
- Persian background, and considers it to have been "traced by overzealous hagiographers". Gilani spent his early life in Gilan, the province of his birth. In...
- century, Mark Eugenikos wrongly called Symeon a megas logothetes. The hagiographer actually lived a generation later than the historian Symeon Logothete...
- entry in Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in the 14th-century Legenda Aurea...
- In the account of Eusebius, an unnamed Christian man (named by later hagiographers as Euethius of Nicomedia and venerated on 27 February) tore down a public...
- of Norwich, was found dead in the woods with stab wounds. William's hagiographer, Thomas of Monmouth, falsely claimed that every year there is an international...