Patience as a hagiographic concept

Abstract

The article discloses the meaning of the concept Patience in hagiographic genre on the material of the Optina Elders' biographies. Semantic contents of the concept Patience is compared in the modern language and in hagiographic texts. We find out that patience can be seen as a hagiographic concept.

Keywords

• терпение
• концепт
• агиография
• семантический признак