There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

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Be crazy dumb saint of the mind.

做思想的哑巴圣徒。

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Peddlers who had these big, big leather bags that would go around Europe and sell things like pins and miraculous images of the Virgin Mary and the stories of saints and all this kind of stuff and Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, in the case of England, become part of the collective memory.

拿着大皮袋的小贩们走遍欧洲,到处贩卖例如胸针,圣母画像,圣徒故事,圣女贞德和罗宾汉之类的小册子,这成了英国大众记忆的一部分

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