Entertainment / Literature / Hagiography: (Greek, 'sacred writing', also called hagiology) The writing or general study of the lives of Christian saints, either in liturgy or in literature. A single story dealing with the life of a saint is called a vita (plural vitae) or a saint's life. Notable examples of literary vitae include Eusebius of Caesarea's record of Palestinian martyrs (4th century CE), Theodoret's account of Syrian monks (5th century CE), Gregory the Great's accounts of the Italian monks (6th century), the Byzantine Menology or Byzantine Calendar incorporating short saints' lives, the Chronicle of Nestor (c. 1113 CE), and The Golden Legend of Jacobus of Voragine (13th century CE). A calendar that incorporates brief saints' lives is called a menology or a martyrology, and these have been compiled by Heironymian (5th century CE), the Venerable Bede (8th century CE), and Adon and Usuard (9th century CE). Among Protestants, John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (alias The Book of Martyrs), published in 1559, contains both a history of the Christian Church and detailed accounts of martyrs, especially the Protestant victims killed during the reign of Queen Mary (Bloody Mary'). See vita.
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