This species of miracle is more commonly discovered in the annals of hagiology than in those of pure myth, although in legend we occasionally find the landscape altered by order of supernatural or semi-supernatural beings.
Hagiology abounds in instances of this description, which in many respects bring it into line with mythology.
Just as some mythology is not in itself religious, but very often mere fiction fortuitously connected with the names of the gods, so hagiology is not of sacerdotal but popular origin.
And for the rest of it mythology and hagiology are hopelessly intermingled in their motifs.
Brittany's Lawyer Saint Few prosperous and wealthy countries produce saints in any great number, and in proof of the converse of this we find much hagiology in Brittany and Ireland.
If hagiology be considered merely in the sense in which the term has come to be understood in the later stages of its development, i.
But the bases of hagiology may fairly be said to have been laid at the time when hagiographic documents, hitherto dispersed, were first brought together into collections.
Froude was an ardent patriot, and his early studies in hagiology had led him to the conclusion, not now accepted, that St. Patrick never existed at all.
His studies in hagiology led him to consider the whole question of the miraculous, and he found it impossible to work with Newman any more.
Perhaps the most remarkable of these is "Mother Friday," a curious product of the mingling of Christian hagiology and Slavonic mythology, of St. Prascovia and the goddess Siwa.
We are familiar in Western hagiology with the specialization of saints for certain purposes.
The records of Roman Catholic hagiology and of the special sect of the Flagellants will furnish numerous parallel instances.
There are some, like a lady I once knew, who think that hagiology is the scientific study of hags.
Every extravagance of hagiology can be found in hero-worship.
The reason of all this is clear: our Saxon hagiology is filled with the names of those that were patriots as well as saints, and we cannot honour them in one capacity without thinking of them in the other.
This tedious work is a specimen of hagiology at its worst.
The Roman hagiology contains the record of six saints of this name.
That mortal life was a thing to be despised and that heaven was to be purchased by shunning the pleasures of existence and extinguishing all human affections, was a lesson taught broadly throughout the hagiology of the Church.
