17 July – Saint Alexius of Rome

San Clemente, about
Annus Dierum Sanctorum 
In propria venit et sui non receperunt eum.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1.11

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

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.

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

Stories of the Saints for Children Second Series by Mary Seymour.

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

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement 

Acta Sanctorum

11th-century French poem of his life 

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium RomanumLatin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Sant’Alessio all’Aventino in Rome and the Madonna di Sant’Alessio 

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine, especially 17C Painting Cycle in Auberchicourt

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database 

Google Art & Culture 

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index
Saints and their Attributes

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.

Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, with Other Contemporary Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.

The Saints in Art with Their Attributes and Symbols, Alphabetically Arranged by Margaret E. Tabor.

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

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

The first opera on a historical subject, Sant’Alessio by Stefano Landi (background)

“Sant’Alessio”, an oratorio by Camilla de Rossi