Hagiography

"Hagiography," from the Greek agios, meaning "holy," originally referred to worshipful stories of the saints; it now describes any excessively fawning biography.

Michael Sigman: Tpaw and the Campaign 'Autohagiography' Michael Sigman 2011

"Hagiography," from the Greek agios, meaning "holy," originally referred to worshipful stories of the saints; it now describes any excessively fawning biography.

Michael Sigman: Tpaw and the Campaign 'Autohagiography' Michael Sigman 2011

PESCA: Hagiography would not be too strong a word to describe how the NFL has marketed the man and the myth of Vince Lombardi up until now.

Vince Lombardi Takes The Stage With A New Play 2010

Hagiography (meditation on the lives of the saints gives Common Lore: Imperial Creed, Imperium, and War as Basic Skills)

Dark Heresy Character – “Shiv,” Your Kind Of Scum « Geek Related 2009

PESCA: Hagiography would not be too strong a word to describe how the NFL has marketed the man and the myth of Vince Lombardi up until now.

Vince Lombardi Takes The Stage With A New Play 2010

In a darker age it was exchanged for the ultimate in homiletic history: Hagiography (7th to 9th Centuries).

Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010

She helped found a research group in Family History and continued to meet with it until her death, as she did with an equally long-lived interdisciplinary Hagiography research group she founded for studying the lives of saints.

Archive 2009-05-01 Nicola Masciandaro 2009

She helped found a research group in Family History and continued to meet with it until her death, as she did with an equally long-lived interdisciplinary Hagiography research group she founded for studying the lives of saints.

Jo Ann Kay McNamara Nicola Masciandaro 2009

Hagiography and other forms of marketable history tells us that there was no significant criticism of Martin Luther King within the whole of the Civil Rights movement prior to 1967-1968 . . . or if there was, it was from so-called marginal sectors such as The Nation of Islam who were always portrayed as a pack of bloodthirsty crackpots.

Harlem, mon amour 2009

Hagiography, fables, amusing songs and poems, tales and stories and adaptations of romances of chivalry completed the available formative as well as informative Yiddish corpus which provided her with instruction, enlightenment and enjoyment.

Old Yiddish Language and Literature. 2009