This hagiographic book is described as being 337 years old!
"1684 Last Complete Folio Edition 3 Vols - Foxe's Book of Martyrs"
(Selina Hastings Library) ... going for $14,900 at ebay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253301483954
Who was John Foxe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foxe
Who was Selina Hastings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Hastings,_Countess_of_Huntingdon
Hagiographic book for Christmas
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine
... an excerpt from the University of Missouri's special collections and archives about this book
"One of the most popular hagiographies in the Middle Ages was the Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) written by the archbishop of Genoa, Jacobus de Voragine (1228/30-1298). Intended as a quick reference for the clergy, the Golden Legend is actually not one saint’s life but a collection of saints’ lives and liturgical and doctrinal instruction. The term “legend” here does not mean folklore or fairy tale, but instead a text that is meant to be read out loud. The connotations we have of the term legend, however, did become associated with Jacobus’s Legend after the Reformation when humanists deplored Jacobus’s work as idolatry. Prior to the Reformation, the Legend was immensely popular. Over 1,000 manuscripts of the Latin version survive today and there are another 500 extant manuscripts of translations into the European vernaculars. Jacobus broke the text down into the main divisions of the liturgical year. Chapters 1-5 cover Advent to Christmas, Chapters 6-30 cover Christmas to Septuagesima- the Sunday 70 days before Easter, Chapters 31-53 deal with the period between Septuagesima and Easter, Chapters 54-76 encompass Easter to the Pentecost, and finally Chapters 77-180 handle the Octave of Pentecost all the way back to Advent. Jacobus cited the Patristic authors in his writing, but also emphasized the miraculous and the inhuman aspects of the stories. This last point is what made the Legend so popular in the Middle Ages and also what caused its downfall after the Reformation. The Legend is a good reference for the lives of the saints, issues of importance to Jacobus and the Church in the thirteenth century, and as a handbook of doctrine, particularly on the medieval church’s understanding of salvation. ~ (Eamon Duffy, “Introduction to the 2012 Edition,” in The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, by Jacobus de Voragine, translated by William Granger Ryan, xi-xx (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993); “Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa,” Encyclopedia Britannica, last updated December 30, 2019.)"
two volumn set of the book sold at amazon
Vol. 1 https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Legend-Readings-Saints-Vol/dp/0691001537/
Vol 2. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Legend-Readings-Saints-Vol/dp/0691001545/
more information about this book at Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legend
Who was Jacobus de Varagine, author of the book?
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08262b.htm
Who are the biblical saints? I found some online references listing the saints of the bible ... I haven't doubled checked all of them yet, but they look credible - they are very nice lists (they are not just Catholic saints, but rather biblical saints).
Blogger - Bible Saints
http://biblesaints.blogspot.com/p/saints-from-scripture-chart_3072.html
World Press - New Song
Bible Saints - Catholic Biblical Association of America
https://www.catholicbiblical.org/biblical-saints
Encyclical from Pope Francis during the pandemic ...
contains hagiographic related information
special encyclical pack from twenty-third publications
http://www.twentythirdpublications.com/spenpapa.html
We are still reading Saint Augustine's City of God ... there is a reader's guide
https://www.amazon.com/Augustines-City-God-Readers-Guide-dp-0198841248/dp/0198841248/
Dante's Divine Comedy is a new book we are reading
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-illustrated-Gustave-Dore/dp/1507882777/
(it, too, has a reader's guide)
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Danteworlds-Readers-Divine-Comedy/dp/0226702707/
Catholic Journaling Bible ...
https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Journaling-Bible-Sunday-Visitor/dp/168192241X
"The Christian holiday of All Saints' Day falls on 1 November, followed by All Souls' Day on 2 November, and is currently a Solemnity in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, a Festival in the Lutheran Churches, as well as a Principal Feast of the Anglican Communion." ~ Wikipedia
The Predella of the San Domenico Altarpiece by Fra Angelico is most often shown as a cropped piece of religious art featuring an all saints' concept - here is the art work as a whole as found on Wikimedia Commons
The Day of the Dead by William-Adolphe Bouguereau from Wikimedia Commons ... it is an autumn memorial day in November that you may associate with the spring memorial day in May
references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day
· Online Oxford Dictionary: “the writing of the lives of saints; biography that idealizes its subject”
· Online Merrium-Webster Dictionary: “The combining form -graphy comes from Greek graphein, meaning to write. Hagio- comes from a Greek word that means saintly or holy. This origin is seen in Hagiographa, the Greek designation of the Ketuvim, the third division of the Hebrew Bible.”
What is hagiography in Frostburg, Maryland?
· “… reading and studying hagiography around the world from the location of Frostburg, Maryland in the form of research and education”
An invitation from Rebecca A. DeWitt
learn more about hagiography by visiting the
Frostburg Hagiography Group online
Frostburg Hagiography Group
Frostburg Hagiography Group is a private
organization unaffiliated with any religious organization.
Saints, Ecclesiastical Leaders, Icons; Religious Shields & Crests, Christian Symbols & Topics, Notable Places & Events of Church History, and much more ...
FHG 2020 summer reading project:
City of God
by
Saint Augustine
This reading project has been extended to the end of the year (12/31/20)
Rebecca A. DeWitt - Frostburg Hagiography Group Owner and Operator (unincorporated, organized 2015); Frostburg, Maryland 21532 http://fbhygp.blogspot.com/
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