Christianity Encyclopedia of Illustrated Saints / Otto Wimmer / Koichi Fujishiro

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Christianity
[Introduction to the Contents]
It takes up 504 main Christian saints, which are indispensable for understanding Western culture. It covers basic information such as an overview of their lives and the history of reverence and features of their iconography. It especially focuses on the features of symbols and iconography. It explains the main points of "how to distinguish" each saint in an easy-to-understand way. It is a Japanese version of the long-selling dictionary that is known for its ease of use. It is new as a handy [popular edition]! Color illustration 48 pages.
[Contents]
Introduction / Legend
Part I : Saints
Part II : Symbols and Attributes
Reference / Japanese Reference
Translator : Postscript
History of Saints
List of German items
List of German items
List of Names of Saints
Index of Names of Saints
Biography of Author
An Austrian priest. While studying theology in Sankt Perten and Salzburg and engaged in librarianship, he compiled the extensive 『 Saint Names Handbook 』 (1955), which covers over 3700 saints, and the Attribute 』 of Saint 『 (1963), which briefly organizes and explains the features of iconography of the main saints. This book was compiled as a more convenient new dictionary by extracting the essence of the two dictionaries that are published as representative gazetteers of saints in the German-speaking world and adding new illustrations, etc.