Hagiography is the art of depicting holy persons or religious scenes; it is the pictorial representation of religious subjects. The hagiographies draw their subjects from life and especially the miracles of the men and women canonized by the Church. Hagiography is central to the Orthodox tradition and less so to Western Christian traditions such as Roman Catholic and Anglican.

Argolis (or Argolis) is located in the Eastern Peloponnese and is a regional unit, a former prefecture of Greece and a geographical area belonging administratively to the Peloponnese Region and geographically to the Peloponnese (or Morea).