28 December – The Holy Innocents

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Effuderunt sanguinem sanctorum tuorum, velut aquam.
They have poured out the blood of your saints, as water
> Psalm 78.3

Modern Hagioraphy

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Character Calendar 

Pictorial Lives of the Saints 

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays

Il libro d’oro

The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Tradition in Action

“Hymn for the Feast of the Holy Innocents” by Aubrey Thomas de Vere.

Biblical Texts

Matthew 2

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

In the Codex Egberti, a tenth-century Ottonian manuscript.

By Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Reliquary in Basel

By Jacopo Tintoretto.

Multiple paintings by Pieter Breughel the Elder (a great interactive feature same painting without the interactive featureanother version)

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon, 2016 Plumb

Sacred and Legendary Art volume II by Mrs. Jameson.

A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints as Illustrated in Art by Clara Erskine Clement.

The Gospel in Art by Albert Bailey.

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Two Hymns by Prudentius to the Holy Innocents

Hymn to the Holy Innocents in the Parochial Hymn Book

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Caedes sanctorum innocentium, H.411 (1683–84)

The Coventry Carol (notesmore background)

Other hymns for the Innocenti

A Dutch carol, “Kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen” (backgroundvideo).

Songs for Catholic Schools

Devotions & Celebrations

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.

Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated by Alexander H. Grant.

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.