Christian hagiographers

Jerome (; ; ; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable, was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the best known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English History". He served at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.

German canon regular

Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was an Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s. Before that, he was also a court chancellor in Aachen. "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual archit

first archbishop of Serbs

Italian Dominican friar, archbishop of Genoa and author

medieval clergyman and historian

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Christian writer and historian and native of Aquitania (c. 363 – c. 425)

Serbian bishop and saint (1880–1956)

English monk, author and saint (1110–1167)

10th century Byzantine historian and hagiographer

Polish writer (1536-1612)

Galatian bishop

English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1924)

monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey (c.945-1004)

Belgian Jesuit and hagiographer

English abbot and prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies and biblical commentaries (c.955-c.1010)

thumb|Hucald's Musica, page 125 in the Codex 169(468) from the Abbey library of Saint Gall Hucbald ( – 20 June 930; also Hucbaldus or Hubaldus) was a Benedictine monk active as a music theorist, poet, composer, teacher, and hagiographer. He was long associated with Saint-Amand Abbey, so is often known as Hucbald of St Amand. Deeply influenced by Boethius' De Institutione Musica, Hucbald's (De) Musica, formerly known as De harmonica institutione, aims to reconcile ancient Greek music theory and the contemporary practice of Gregorian chant with the use of many notated examples. Among the leading

thumb|Acta Sanctorum (IANUARIUS 1643) The Society of Bollandists (; ) is an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity. Their most important publication has been the Acta Sanctorum (The Acts of the Saints). They are named after the Flemish Jesuit Jean Bolland (1596–1665).

Byzantine monk

German Cistercian, author

Georgian writer and calligrapher in the 5th century

Patriarch of Constantinople

Eastern Orthodox theologian (1894–1979)

19th-century British hymn writer, Catholic priest, and theologian

Belgian Jesuit and hagiography scholar (1859–1941)

Spanish hagiologist

Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (1628–1714)

English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer (1710-1773)

thumb|Byrhtferth's diagram with the Four elements (earth, water, air, fire), seasons, solstices, equinoxes, signs of the zodiac and ages of man. An [[Ogham inscription is in the centre. Miniature from the twelfth-century English medieval manuscript MS Oxford St John's College 17, folium 7 verso. Copy from original about 1000 AD by Byrhtferth.]] Byrhtferth (; ) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) in England. He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo-Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historic

hagiographer

Jesuit hagiographer

Swedish Dominican friar

Roman hagiographer and writer

Welsh cleric and author

Roman Catholic bishop, hagiographer, church music composer

Jesuit hagiographer

Catholic cardinal

Bishop and author of a collection of lives of the saints

Jesuit priest, hagiographer (1833-1911)

German hagiographer

Christian abbot, theologian, and historian

Bishop of Brescia

Columbanian monk and writer of hagiography

Byzantine hagiographer

Italian hagiographer and historian (1598-1664)

French hagiographer and historian

Wallachian scholar, poet, and statesman

Irish bishop, reformer and writer

12th century Byzantine theologian and philosopher

Irish Friar Minor and scholar

Benedictine monk (-1004)

English churchman and writer

Italian cleric-scientist

Christian hagiographer

Georgian writer

Belgian anthropologist, hagiographer and librarian (1854–1913)

Theologian, Premonstratensian, and abbot of Bonne-Espérance Abbey

Spanish theologian