Saints or holiness.
Greek hagios, holy.
Hagiography is writing about the lives of saints, or a biography that idealizes its subject; hagiology is literature dealing with the lives and legends of saints, while hagiolatry (Greek ‑latria, worship) is their worship. A hagioscope is a squint, an opening in the wall of a church permitting a view of the altar.
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