8 July – Saint Elizabeth of Portugal

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Fiat pax in virtute tua.
Let peace be in thy strength.
Psalm 121.7
Loquetur pacem.
[S]he will speak peace.
Psalm 84.9

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology, also

Sanctorale Catholicum

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

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.

Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year by Henry Sebastian Bowden.

Anecdotes and Incidents: Ecclesiastical and Religious

Memorials of the Blessed: A Series of Short Lives of the Saints by Charles B. Fairbanks.

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Great Wives and Mothers by Hugh Francis Blunt.

Tradition in Action

Breviarium Romanum English & Latin.

Art & Architecture

BeWeB

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Vatican Colonnade

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Saint Elizabeth of Portugal by Zurbaran.

18C Santa Elisabetta d’Ungheria e santa Elisabetta del Portogallo

Video in Portuguese on the retábulo “Rainha Santa Isabel” do séc. XVI in the Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro in Coimbra

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index

1839 – conventionally identified as Elizabeth of Hungary, see Wikipedia entry.

Saints and their Attributes

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.

Lives and Legends of the English Bishops and Kings, Mediaeval Monks, and Other Later Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.

Saints and their Symbols: A Companion in the Churches and Picture Galleries of Europe by E. A. Greene.

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.

Music

Hymn to Saint Elizabeth of Portugal by Pope Urban VIII

Hymns to Saint Elizabeth of Portugal by Pope Urban VII

Devotions

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