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| An elegant handbook of hagiography, the Mornins' compendium allies a brief biography of 137 saints with sculpture, painting and fresco, marble and stone relief, stained glass, woodcut, plaster, prayer card, and mosaic images rich in symbol and period detail. ``I'm starting to feel embarrassed,'' she said of all the hagiography at one point -- and that was before the montage focusing on her fashion sense. Bezzel escaped naive hagiography and the cult around Loehe through his hard-nosed historical and theological inquiry, using not only the common and readily accessible sources but also many sources that were difficult to obtain and were not yet published. |
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