Jonah Barrington (squash player) of his ancestors, Sir Jonah Barrington, established an estate in County Limerick called "Glenstal", which was eventually sold in the 1930s to a group of Belgian Benedictine monks who established a boarding school. In 1982 Barrington co-authored the book "Murder in the Squash Court: the Only Way to Win". He has coached Israeli squash player Daniel Poleshchuk. Barrington is the father of professional squash player Joey Barrington. Jonah Barrington (squash player) Jonah Barrington (born 29 April 1941) is a retired Irish/English squash player, originally from Morwenstow, Cornwall, England. A Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the British Open (which was
Legendary material in Christian hagiography Apostles, indicating dogmatic prepossessions. The Christian Church combatted these stories, but the opposition of centuries—the Decree of Gelasius in 496 is well-known—was unable to prevent the narratives from becoming unhistorical as to facts. Legendary material in Christian hagiography A legendary, in Christian literature, is a collection of biographies of saints or other holy figures. The pre-eminent example of the form is the mid-thirteenth-century "Legenda aurea" or 'Golden Legend', which contained a large number of saints' lives, organised according to the liturgical year. The genre fell into decline following the Reformation. The "legenda" (literally, that which is for reading) included facts