Towards the Meaning of Concealed Quotations In Ancient Russian Hagiography
The article concerns analysis of the phenomenon of concealed biblical quotations in ancient Russian literature of saints' lives of XV-XVI centuries. The author makes an attempt to ascertain the index of probable senses which are to be injected into the text of lives by quotations, staying secret towards the majority of readers, but excellently understood by professional scribes. One of such senses is an idea of relation between a character of a saint and a patronal festival of a monastery, established by him.