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All gods in their anthropo-, helio-, thero-, or what-not-morphic forms are false; but, on the other hand, all gods in their spiritual essence are true. So I do not deprecate my prospective unique position in Lola Brandt's hagiology. It was better for her soul that I should occupy it.
Are they supposed to be scrapping like the gods in Homer English Saint George against German Saint Michael and so on? But my friend did not seem very keen about either Homer or hagiology. He explained that he was a C.M.S. man, and not a medievalist. The discussion languished, ere he murmured 'Good night. I slept rather fitfully. I was awake long before the ship moved away on her fierce errand.
Alvira opens her soul to the impulses of grace, but in dangerous and guilty procrastination she passes through some startling vicissitudes before the Almighty, impatient as it were for her love, draws her to him by one of the most touching miracles recorded in the wonders of hagiology.
With his brother Hendrik, who was also educated in theology and had preached at Wesel, he had joined the sect at Herford. His sister Elizabeth had already joined them at Amsterdam. The brother withdrew, the sister remained, and figures in Yvon's hagiology, having died at Altona in 1674, aet. 23. Hendrik and Peter were "speaking brothers" in the church.
It has been with Anne Boleyn as it has been with Catherine of Arragon both are regarded as the victims of a tyranny which catholics and protestants unite to remember with horror; and each has taken the place of a martyred saint in the hagiology of the respective creeds.
Toward the end of the 13th century a collection of lives of saints, a sort of English Golden Legend, was prepared at the great abbey of Gloucester for use on saints' days. The legends were chosen partly from the hagiology of the Church Catholic, as the lives of Margaret, Christopher, and Michael; partly from the calendar of the English Church, as the lives of St.
Thus we observe how it is possible for a pagan myth to become an incident in Christian hagiology. Satan in Rhine Story In the legends of the Rhine the picturesque figure of his Satanic majesty is frequently presented, as in the legends of The Sword-slipper of Solingen, The Architect of Cologne Cathedral, and several other tales.
Carried on by the power of association, we are thus brought to the door of an exceedingly interesting department of book-club literature, the restoration of the true text of the early lives of the saints a species of literature now recognised and separated from others by the title of Hagiology.
Clelia Alba was now a woman of forty-one years old, and he, her only son, was twenty-four; they had named him Adone; the beautiful Greek Adonais having passed into the number of the saints of the Latin Church, by a transition so frequent in hagiology that its strangeness is not remembered save by a scholar here and there.
Yves, a saint of Brittany, appears to be the only advocate who has found a place in its hagiology, and the worshippers were accustomed to sing on his festival 'Advocatus et non latro Res miranda populo. It is indeed evident that a good deal of moral compromise must enter into this field, and the standards of right and wrong that have been adopted have varied greatly.
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