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Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924: Short title: The lives of the saints; Date and time of digitizing: 20:30, 23 October 2009: Software used: Digitized by the Internet Archive
Der Heiligen Leben ('The Lives of Saints'), also known as Passional, was a German legendary, compiled by a Dominican friar from Nürnberg around 1400. [1] Today, 197 manuscripts are known, along with 33 High German and 8 Low German imprints; the oldest imprint is that of Günther Zainer (Augsburg, 1471/72) and the latest is from Strassburg (1521).
This book, being a work of hagiography, focuses on the lives of Catholic Saints. [4] In addition to its moral values, attractive to the Catholic church for its inspirational value "in edifying the faithful and refuting heretics", [2] it was also attractive to the readers due to its depiction of exotic times and locales, royal and intentional politics, as well as graphic and detailed ...
The Lives of the Saints. Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives"), the result of thirty years' study, was first published in four volumes in London, 1756–1759. [6]
Lives of Saints a 10th-century series of homilies by Ælfric of Eynsham; Lives of the Saints, a 1570s Polish book; Butler's Lives of the Saints, a 1750s English collection by Alban Butler; The Lives of the Saints (Baring-Gould), an 1870s English collection; Lives of the Saints (Ricci novel), a 1990 novel by Nino Ricci
Imitation of the life of Christ was then the benchmark against which saints were measured, and imitation of the lives of saints was the benchmark against which the general population measured itself. In Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, hagiography became a literary genre par excellence for the teaching of a largely illiterate audience ...
Acta Sanctorum, January volume, published in 1643. Acta Sanctorum (Acts of the Saints) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, organised by the saints' feast days.
The Lives of the Saints is a sixteen-volume collection of lives of the saints by Sabine Baring-Gould, first published between 1872 and 1877 by John Hodges, of London, and later republished in Edinburgh in 1914.