Revertere Sulamitis, ut intueamur te.
Return, O Sulamitess: that we may behold thee.
Canticles 6.12
Ephraim quasi Columba seducta.
Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed.
Hosea 7.11
Meditabor ut Columba.
I will meditate like a dove.
Isaiah 38.14
Modern Hagiography
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine-Baring Gould.
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.
Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year
The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts by Richard Challoner.
Great Magdalens by Hugh Francis Blunt.
Medieval Hagiography
Life of Saint Abraham by his friend, Saint Ephrem
Art & Architecture
Warburg Institute Iconographic Index
Morgan Library MS M.626, Vitae patrum, folios 90r to 96v
Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, with Other Contemporary Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.
The Saints in Art by Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
Emblems of Saints by Which They Are Distinguished in Works of Art by F. C. Husenbeth.
Nihil sub sole novum 