Monday, October 30, 2017

All Saints' Day 2017 in Frostburg

November 1st - an important day for Frostburg Hagiography Group ... All Saints' Day !  (the calendar cluster of Halloween, All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day)







just some vocabulary ...

"Hagiographa: the books of the Bible comprising the last of the three major divisions of the Hebrew scriptures, other than the Law and the Prophets. The books of the Hagiographa are: Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles." - google search dictionary

"The hagiographer has a threefold task: to collect all the material relevant to each particular saint, to edit the documents according to the best methods of textual criticism, and to interpret the evidence by using literary, historical, and any other pertinent criteria." - Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/hagiography