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The dictionary provides definitions and contains historical commentary for concepts such as holiness, deification, canonization, hagiography, bits of saints described (apostles, martyrs, saints, confessors, etc.) and given the history of the formation of holiness types of Christian spirituality and worship. It focuses on the place of sanctity and the cult of saints in the history of Christian culture. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience and is relatively popular character. However, its material and theoretical findings are consistent with the current state of research in this area, which is very important, because the Russian reader available reference books and encyclopedias, containing similar material, refer to the end of the last or the beginning of this century, and in many respects outdated.

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