The ''Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca'' is a catalogue of

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

hagiographic A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies might ...

materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the

translations Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ...

of their relics, and their

miracle A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary define"Miracle"as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divi ...

s, arranged alphabetically by saint. It is usually abbreviated as BHG in scholarly literature. The listings include MSS, incipits, and printed editions. The first two editions (1895, 1909) were edited by the

Bollandists The Bollandist Society ( la, Societas Bollandistarum french: Société des Bollandistes) are an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century ...

, which included the Jesuit scholar

Hippolyte Delehaye Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J., (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit who was a hagiographical scholar and an outstanding member of the Society of Bollandists. Biography Born in 1859 in Antwerp, Delehaye joined the Society of Jesus ...

. The most recent editions have been the product of a single editor François Halkin. The ''BHG'' along with the ''

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina The ''Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina'' (') is a catalogue of Latin hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the translations of their relics, and their miracles, arranged alphabetically by saint. The list ...

'' and '' Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis'' are the most useful tools in the research of literary documents concerning the saints.Sergei Hackel, ed.
''The Byzantine Saint (San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1983), 161''

Editions

* ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca; seu, Elenchus vitarum sanctorum,'' ed. Société des Bollandistes (Bruxelles: Apud editories, 1895).
''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca,'' 2nd ed.
ed. Société des Bollandistes, Subsidia Hagiographica 8 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1909). * ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca,'' 3rd ed., 3 vols., ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 8a (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1957 eprinted 1986. * ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Auctarium,'' ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 47 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1969). * ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Novum Auctarium,'' ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 65 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1984).

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a database containing all BHG records {{Authority control Christian hagiography Catalogues Jesuit publications Greek-language books Belgian books 20th-century non-fiction books 20th-century history books

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