Meanings
nounhagiolatry (uncountable)
- uncountableThe worship of saints.
Individual churches had their own patron saints, and strong territorial associations could give hagiolatry an almost totemic character […].
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 25
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Translations
Finnish hagiolatria
- hagiolatriaworship of saints
Romanian hagiolatrie
- hagiolatrieworship of saints
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