'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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Language: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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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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