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The genre of lives of the [[saint]]s first came into being in the [[Roman Empire]] as legends about Christian [[martyr]]s and were called [[martyrologies]]. In the 4th century, there were 3 main types of catalogues of lives of the saints:
*annual calendar catalog, or ''menaionMenaion'' , an annual calendar catalogue (in Greek, ''menaios'' means "month") (biographies of the saints to be read at [[sermon]]s); *''synaxarionSynaxarion'', or a short version of lives of the saints, arranged by dates; *''paterikonPaterikon'' (in Greek, ''pater'' means "father"), or biography of the specific saints, chosen by the catalog compiler.
In Western Europe hagiography was one of the more important areas in the study of history during the Middle Ages. The ''Golden Legend'' of Jacob de Voragine compiled a great deal of mediæval hagiographic material, with a strong emphasis on miracle tales.
