Modern Hagioraphy
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.
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
The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
“Hymn for the Feast of the Holy Innocents” by Aubrey Thomas de Vere.
Biblical Texts
Medieval Hagiography
The Golden Legend (and illustrations)
Art & Architecture
In the Codex Egberti, a tenth-century Ottonian manuscript.
By Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.
Multiple paintings by Pieter Breughel the Elder (a great interactive feature – same painting without the interactive feature – another version)
18C Libro del Compendio della Vita di tutti Santi
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.
Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts 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
Two Hymns by Prudentius to the Holy Innocents.
The Coventry Carol (notes – more background)
A Dutch carol, “Kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen” (background – video).
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.
Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.