hagiographical collection

C10140
concept

A hagiographical collection is an assemblage of texts or narratives that recount and celebrate the lives, virtues, and miracles of saints or holy figures, often for devotional or didactic purposes.

All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
hagiographical work 18
hagiographical collection canonical 9
hagiographical text 9

Instances (48)

Instance Via concept surface
Synaxarium
Acts of Saint Susanna Christian hagiography
Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik hagiographic work
The Martyrdom of Polycarp hagiographical work
Lives of Saints hagiographical work
Lausiac History Christian hagiographical work
Historia Monachorum in Aegypto hagiographical work
Life of Anthony (subject of biography by Athanasius of Alexandria)
surface form: Life of Anthony
Christian hagiography
Legenda Aurea hagiographic collection
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine
surface form: The Golden Legend
hagiographic collection
Byzantine Synaxarion
Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom hagiographical text
Dialogues hagiographical work
Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis hagiographical text
Vita Willibrordi hagiographical work
Life of Saint Sava (self-hagiography attributed) hagiographical work
Vita Constantini hagiographical work
Vita Columbae by Adomnán of Iona
surface form: Vita Columbae
hagiographical work
Safinat-ul-Auliya hagiographical work
The Discourse on the Miracles of the Most Holy Virgin in the Enkleistra hagiographical text
Coptic Synaxarion
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity hagiographical text
Chaitanya Bhagavata hagiographical text
Martyrologium Hieronymianum hagiographical text
Asser’s Life of King Alfred hagiographical work
The Great Asceticon ascetical collection
Martyrology of Usuard hagiographical work
Tadhkirat al-Awliya hagiographical work
Basava Puranam hagiographical work
Prabhavakacarita hagiographical work
Trisastisalakapurusacaritra hagiographical work
Parsvanathacarita hagiographical text
Synaxarion of the Armenian Church
Acta Sanctorum
South English Legendary
Martyrdoms of the Saints (hagiographic texts) hagiographic text collection
Synaxarium of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Gädl of Saint Lalibela hagiographic text
Passio Albani (Passion of Saint Alban)
surface form: Passio Albani
hagiographical text
Martyrs of Palestine hagiographical work
Synaxarium (Senkessar)
Lausiaca hagiographical work
Legenda sanctorum hagiographic collection
Life and Sayings of Amma Syncletica hagiographical text
Book II of the Dialogues hagiographical work
A Great Cloud of Witnesses
Liber fundationis ecclesiae Sancti Bartholomei (Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's)
surface form: Liber fundationis ecclesiae Sancti Bartholomei
hagiographic text
Sequence of Saint Eulalia hagiographic text