Агіологія поетичної збірки Лазаря Барановича Żywoty świętych (1670)
Hagiology in Lazar Baranovych’s poetry collection Żywoty świętych (1670)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is the analysis of hagiology in Lazar Baranovych’s poetry collection entitled Żywoty świętych (1670). This includes the fulfilment of such tasks:1) To enumerate the saints mentioned in the poetry collection; 2) To determine to which church/epoch/place of worship or order of sainthood they belong; 3) To determine how full the saints’ details of biography are reflected in the poetry collection mentioned above;4) To understand Lazar Baranovych’s view on the topic of different kinds of sainthoodclearly; 5) To measure the actuality of his views given the context of the 18th century Ukraine. The results of the research are shared in the given article, showing how exactly Lazar Baranovych defined for himself the concept of the sainthood at the first place. They also tell us about his views on the call for monkhood and family life and help us to reconstruct the images of the ideal spiritual shepherd, female Christian etc.

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