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The Legends of the saint-facts about the saints. How often these two are thought to be the same thing, and everything which we read in saints' biographies we take to be unadorned truth. But this is simply not so-the lives of the saints have from the earlier times been a mixture of fact, legend, fabrication and confusion. As Fr. Delehaye says: 'The conditions in which many accounts of martyrs and lives of saints were composed are too little known to people in general to allow of a ground of understanding...We therefore believe we shall be doing a useful work by trying to set out, more clearly than usual, the various kinds of writings our pious authors produced, by outlining the origins of their compositions and by showing how far they were from being protected from making errors that exact history is bound to point out. The aim of this book is to briefly show the spirit in which hagiographical documents should be read, to sketch the method for discriminating between materials that the historian can use and those that he should leave to poets and artists as their property, and to put readers on their guard against being led away by formulas and preconceived ideas. There is no questio

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Author

Hippolyte Delehaye, Delehaye, Hippolyte, 1859-1941, Virginia M. Crawford

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

1962

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823204403

Category

nonfiction