The hagiographers of Decies retort for their patron by a claim of yet another miracle and so on.

With this end of glorification in view the hagiographer is prepared to swallow everything and record anything.

The hagiographers of Decies retort for their patron by a claim of yet another miracle and so on.

With this end of glorification in view the hagiographer is prepared to swallow everything and record anything.

Modern critical methods were undreamed of in the days of our hagiographer, who wrote, moreover, for edification only in a credulous age.

BUTLER, ALBAN, hagiographer, born in Northampton; head of the college at St. Omer; wrote "Lives of the Saints" (1710-1773).