Editing Hagiography (section)

=== Oriental Orthodoxy ===
The [[Oriental Orthodox Churches]] also have their own hagiographic traditions. For instance, [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]] hagiographies in the [[Ge'ez language]] are known as ''gadl'' (Saint's Life).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kelly|first=Samantha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLgSzAEACAAJ&q=ethiopian+hagiography|title=A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea|date=2020|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004419582|language=en}}</ref> There are some 200 hagiographies about indigenous saints.<ref>Kefyalew Merahi. Saints and Monasteries in Ethiopia. 2 vols. Vol. 2, Addis Ababa: Commercial Printing Press, 2003.</ref> They are among the most important [[Ethiopian Empire|Medieval Ethiopian]] written sources, and some have accurate historical information.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tamrat|first=Taddesse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIAcYAAACAAJ&q=ethiopian+hagiography|title=Hagiographies and the Reconstruction of Medieval Ethiopian History|date=1970|language=en}}</ref> They are written by the disciples of the saints. Some were written a long time after the death of a saint, but others were written not long after the saint's demise.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.linkethiopia.org/guide-to-ethiopia/the-pankhurst-history-library/lives-of-ethiopian-saints/|title=Lives of Ethiopian Saints|website=Link Ethiopia|access-date=4 March 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305040611/http://web.linkethiopia.org/guide-to-ethiopia/the-pankhurst-history-library/lives-of-ethiopian-saints/|archive-date=5 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Galawdewos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmuYDwAAQBAJ&q=ethiopian+hagiography|title=The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman|year= 2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0691164212|language=en}}</ref> Fragments from an [[Old Nubian]] hagiography of Saint Michael are extant.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=van Gerven Oei|first1=Vincent W. J.|url=https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25470|title=The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri|last2=Laisney|first2=Vincent Pierre-Michel|last3=Ruffini|first3=Giovanni|last4=Tsakos|first4=Alexandros|last5=Weber-Thum|first5=Kerstin|last6=Weschenfelder|first6=Petra|date=2016|publisher=punctum books|doi=10.21983/P3.0156.1.00 |hdl=20.500.12657/25470 |language=English}}</ref>