'γάλα ἀντὶ αἵματος'—An Unwonted Hagiographic Topos

Some Christian texts, and especially hagiographic and hymnographic ones, record a miraculous phenomenon at the violent deaths of several martyrs: from the beheaded bodies, milk flows instead of blood. After a superficial reading of the biographical passages in the synaxaria and iambic stichoi record...

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Main Author: Boicu, Dragoş (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B Martyrs
B hypertriglyceridemia
B Hagiography
B Acta Sanctorum
B Christian hymnography
B Milk
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