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  2. Francis of Assisi - Wikipedia

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    St. Joseph the Hesychast had Francis as his baptismal name, and the Greek tradition always requires Saint's names to be taken at baptism. Romanian Orthodox priest, iconographer, and saint, Arsenie Boca painted an icon of Saints in Draganescu Church, which included St. Francis of Assisi.

  3. Jean de Joinville - Wikipedia

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    Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' biography. He then put himself to the task of writing livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz de nostre saint roy Looÿs (as he himself called it), today known as the Life of Saint Louis. Jeanne of Navarre died on 2 April ...

  4. Hagiography - Wikipedia

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    Page from Vita Sancti Martini by Sulpicius Severus. A hagiography (/ ˌ h æ ɡ i ˈ ɒ ɡ r ə f i /; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy' and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') [1] is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

  5. Lists of saints - Wikipedia

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    It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1] In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, meaning ' holy ', and although saint has been applied in other religious contexts, the word has its origins in ...

  6. Teresa of Ávila - Wikipedia

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    "St. Teresa, Virgin", Butler's Lives of the Saints; Founder Statue in St Peter's Basilica; Biography Online: Saint Teresa of Avila; Patron Saints: Saint Teresa of Avila; Books written by Saint Teresa of Avila, including Saint John of the Cross; Works by Teresa of Ávila at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Teresa of Ávila at the Internet ...

  7. Paul the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus, a c. 1889 portrait by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior. Paul's conversion to the movement of followers of Jesus can be dated to 31–36 AD [77] [78] [79] by his reference to it in one of his letters. In Galatians 1:16, Paul writes that God "was pleased to reveal his son to me."

  8. Andrew the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    St. Andrew is traditionally portrayed with a long forked beard, a cross, and a book. Masaccio's 1426 "Saint Andrew" is a panel painting in tempora and gold leaf, once part of the Pisa Altarpiece It is now at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. [71] Andrew appears as part of Carlo Crivelli's San Domenico Altarpiece (1476).

  9. Saint Christopher - Wikipedia

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    "The Life of Saint Christopher", The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, Temple Classics, 1931 (Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, translated by William Caxton) at the Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook * St. Christopher in the Golden Legend: Latin original, English translation (Caxton) Weinstein, Donald; Bell, Rudolph M. (1982).