This three-volume set contains the available collections of the Lives of the Saints in the Greek Orthodox tradition, from the beginning to the sixteenth century, introduced with a comprehensive list of the manuscripts consulted. It is the final work of Albert Ehrhard, largely published posthumously. After a section on the oldest collections of Saints’ lives, the texts from before the tenth century are discussed by genre: lists of holy days for the whole year, collections of hagiographies, arranged chronologically, those devoted to the feasts of Jesus or of Mary, collections produced by individual authors, and collections of hagiographic sermons. He then moves to the influential ten-volume hagiography of Simeon the Metaphrast and its extensive manuscript tradition. A final section deals with other hagiographic collections and the independent hagiographic tradition of the Byzantine theologians.