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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
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.
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 is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
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.
Hermann of Fritzlar was a medieval German mystic and author of a collection of legends, the Buch von der Heiligen Leben (Book of the Lives of the Saints), also known as Das Heiligenleben (The Saints' Life), which was written between 1343 and 1349.
"Barlaam and Josaphat" in the Eastern Orthodox version comes from John of Damascus, copied and translated into Old Church Slavonic by anonymous monk-scribes from the 9th-11th centuries, and in modern Serbian by Ava Justin Popović ("Lives of the Saints" for November, pp. 563–590), an abridged version of which is given in the Ohrid Prologue of ...
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 ...