A world-famous reliquary, supposed to contain a relic of St. Dorothy the martyr, was to be delivered at the Catholic monastery in a cathedral town; and one of the most famous of international jewel-thieves was supposed to have an eye on it; or rather presumably on the gold and rubies of its setting, rather than its purely hagiological importance. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His experiments on the red colouring matter of _drosera rotundifolia_ had formed the subject of a monograph, and he was particularly interested in the hagiological folk-lore of Lower Brittany. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)
Most of the material here is hagiological biography, occasionally revised as by Leo XIII. in view of archaeological and other discoveries, but still largely uncritical. ❋ Various (N/A)
And beside these poetical productions sprang up the hagiological legends, of which the best known refer to St. Nicholas of Myra, St. Parasceve, and St. Cassian. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Scripture, with commentaries, writings of the Fathers, and synaxaria, so that his menologies are almost a complete répertoire of the ancient literature of Russia, rather than a simple hagiological collection. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
To the same century belong the hagiological legends, which are lives of the saints, or episodes in them, embellished by popular fancy, examples of which are the legends of the Tsarevitch ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
When we examine closely the scattered items of information, especially the hagiological indications, their importance is peculiarly lessened, for we find that the teaching in gouestion generally concerns ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The hagiological literature of monastic life in the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It was written in 822, and is one of the most reliable hagiological productions of that period. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Visigothic archeology of Eastern Spain has been hitherto poor in hagiological remains; nevertheless, a trans-Pyrenean inscription found at Montady near Béziers mentions a basilica dedicated to the martyrs Sts. Vincentius, Iñes, and Eulalia (of Barcelona). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He is the author of one of the earliest hagiological works entitled "Leimon" ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The lion is common enough, of course, in Christian art both hagiological and heraldic. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The names of these kings were mostly what we call Teutonic names; but those who write the almost entirely hagiological records did not say, and apparently did not ask, whether the populations were in this sense of unmixed blood. ❋ Unknown (1905)
He took exception to the hagiological licence which assigns lofty motives to trivial actions. ❋ Agnes Repplier (1904)
And while almost innumerable editions appeared in Latin, it was also translated into the vulgar tongue of most of the nations of Europe, usually with alterations and additions in accordance with the hagiological preferences of the different nationalities. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
This is an extremely valuable book, not only as a biography -- hagiological, like so much valuable early material for history, yet truthful -- and as a record of manners in the tenth century, but as containing the account of the conversion of Moravia to ❋ William Holden Hutton (1895)
In this mass of production may be discerned comedies of manners, comedies of intrigue, pastorals, historical comedies (with characters whose names are known in history), classical and religious tragedies, mythological, philosophical, and hagiological comedies. ❋ ��mile Faguet (1881)
Cæsar, Diodorus, Mela, Strabo, Pliny, and other classic and hagiological authors, are full of the gravest archæological bearings; but no doubt also many antiquarian relics, both large and small, have been provokingly called Druidical, merely because their origin and object were unknown. ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
Heisterbach, a well-known hagiological writer of whom Adrien Baillet thus speaks: -- ❋ Pedro Calder��n De La Barca (1640)
