To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point. |
But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography. |
Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project. |
She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made. |
He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint. |
Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life. |