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the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology

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  • The use and ceremonial procession of the relics paralleled the miraculous healings described in hagiographical sources.
  • Formerly all the hagiographical collections devoted a long commentary to him.
  • It is an authorized biography, but thankfully free of the hagiographical pieties of the genre.
  • There is a fascinating, if non-hagiographical, essay on St. Gerald here. posted by John at 11: 31 PM
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