A person who writes about the lives of saints; an author of hagiography.
From Greek 'hagios' (holy) plus 'graphos' (writer), with the agent suffix '-er.' Medieval monks and religious scholars were the primary hagiographers.
Medieval hagiographers were essentially the celebrity biographers of their time, but instead of gossip they recorded miracles—and they had almost no interest in the boring human details we'd want to know.
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