The life of the Saints of Zalka – Zsihovics – Debreczeni explained

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

History

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

Volume I312 1859Zalka János
Volume II484 1863Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume III264 1866Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume IV445 1868Zsihovics Ferenc
Volume V658 1876Debreczeni János

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