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Les Legendes grecques des saints militaires (Paperback)
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Les Legendes grecques des saints militaires (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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The Belgian Jesuit Hippolyte Delehaye (1859-1941) was a
distinguished member of the Society of Bollandists, named for the
seventeenth-century Jesuit Jean Bolland, who was assigned the task
of collating and editing the various versions of the lives of
saints and martyrs. This work in French was published in 1909, and
considers the various legends, originating in the Greek Orthodox
Church, about the lives of soldier-saints, from the most famous,
such as St George and St Theodore, to those, such as St Procopius
of Scythopolis, where there is not unanimous agreement that they
were soldiers at all. A long appendix gives the Greek texts (with
variants) of several versions of the lives and martyrdoms of Sts
Theodore, Eutropius, Procopius, Mercurius and Demetrius. Delehaye
in his introduction points out that Christianity spread rapidly
through the Roman army, and that this accounts in part for its
dissemination across the Roman world.
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