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  • Whoever wrote this story of Dante must have been at the economical pains to erase carefully the ecclesiastical script, thus curiously avenging so many palimpsests of Greek poets and Latin poets, whose lyrics have been scrubbed away with pumice-stone to make room for homilies and liturgies and hagiologies.

    The God of Love 1898

  • Christian hagiologies; Goldziher, _Muhammedanische Studien_;

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

  • Our old Scottish hagiologies, witch trials, ecclesiastical records, etc., abound with notices of them.

    Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

  • The deifications and hagiologies were particularly overt in the remarks of prominent black figures.

    City Journal 2010

  • And I think they're named in one of the pagan hagiologies, aren't they? "

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

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