Acta Sanctorum (lives of saints)

Japanese: 聖人伝 - せいじんでん（英語表記）Acta Sanctorum

Documents that record the words, deeds, and lives of saints. Includes the Acta Martyrum. The Acts of the Martyrs include Cyprian's Acta Proconsularia and various passion accounts (the Martyrdom of Ignatius, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Martyrs of Lyon, Perpetua and Felicitas, etc.), which are less embellished with legends and are more reliable in their descriptions. The first hagiography that compiled individual martyrdom accounts was written by Eusebius of Caesarea, known as the "father of church history," but no longer exists except for the section on Palestinian martyrs (a Syriac translation). In the early modern period, the critical compilation "Acta Sanctorum" (1643) by the Belgian Bollandists (a publishing group of Jesuits) is famous. (→ Golden Saints )

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Japanese:

聖人の言行や生涯を記録した文書。殉教者行伝 Acta Martyrumを含む。殉教者行伝にはキプリアヌスの Acta Proconsularia，各種受難記 (イグナチオス殉教録，ポリュカルポス殉教録，リヨンの殉教者受難記，ペルペトゥアとフェリキタスの受難記など) があり，これらは伝説的修飾が少く，記述には信頼性がある。個々の殉難録を集成した最初の聖人伝は「教会史の父」と称されるカエサレアのエウセビオスの手になるものであるが，パレスチナの殉教者の部分 (シリア語訳) を除いて現存しない。近世ではベルギーのボランディスト (イエズス会士の刊行団体) による批判的編集"Acta Sanctorum" (1643) が有名。 (→黄金聖人伝 )

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