The life of the Saints of Zalka – Zsihovics – Debreczeni

The Life of the Saints of Zalka – Zsihovics – Debreczeni is a large-scale 19th century hagiographic work.

History

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Among the works entitled The Life of Saints in Hungarian, the most extensive work to date was published between 1859 and 1876 in Eger and Budapest by János Zalka, Ferenc Zsihovics and János Debreczeni. The large-scale work is more than 2,100 pages long and contains the biographies of thousands of people revered as saints in calendar order. The work has neither a facsimile nor an electronic edition to this day.

Order of volumes

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Volume Number
Number of pages
Year of publication
Author
Volume I 312 1859 Zalka János
Volume II 484 1863 Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume III 264 1866 Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume IV 445 1868 Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume V 658 1876 Debreczeni János

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