Hinduism has a long tradition of stories and poetry about saints.

Although Mr. Branch makes few harsh judgments, this is not a book about saints.

He also wrote about religious martyrs and saints.

Plays about saints, especially local saints, were particularly popular in England.

What is it that Omar Khayyám says about the doctors and saints?

"I don't know about saints of literature," she says, not looking at me.

I loved anything at all about horses and saints.

For some readers, that means books about saints and angels or devils and demons.

For instance, around 200 texts were written about indigenous Ethiopian saints from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century.

"I didn't want to talk about saints," she said of de la Tour.