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- noun Plural form of
hagiologist .
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Examples
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The dedication is to St. Winwaloe, and it must be left to more learned hagiologists to decide who this Winwaloe really was, or whether he was identical with the founder of Landewednack.
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This, it must be confessed, is very far from being a common character of the Irish saints, as they are represented to us by the native hagiologists; and in any case the character-drawing of the average
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He has his own hagiologists, and a couple borrowed from Outtime Religious
Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934
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Among the first Russian hagiologists mention should be made of Jacob, a monk of the Petcherskaia hermitage, who wrote an account of the martyrdom of Sts. Boris and Glieba, and the panegyric of St. Vladimir; of Nestor, the most famous of the ancient Russian writers, a monk of the hermitage of Kieff, who died in 1114.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The chief object of Jacopo de Voragine and of other medieval hagiologists was not to compose reliable biographies or to write scientific treatises for the learned, but to write books of devotion that were adapted to the simple manners of the common people.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Some hagiologists consider the seven sons of Symphorosa, like those of Felicitas
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The story of their martyrdom is told in an old Passio, the reliability of which is seriously questioned by many modern hagiologists.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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This error had been copied by several later hagiologists, as has also the same writers 'confusion of St. Maelrubha with St. Rufus of Capua.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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There are also several martyrs named Epimachus, and, owing to the meagreness of the information possessed concerning them less careful writers have confounded them greatly while the greater hagiologists are unable to agree as to their number or identity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Some hagiologists style her "Blessed," though she has never received public veneration and was never formally beat
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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