3 August – Finding of the Relics of Saint Stephen

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Fresco Cycle in San Lorenzo fuori le mura (image source)
The Relics of St Stephen are Taken to Constantinople
La Découverte du Corps de Saint Etienne (The Discovery of the Relics of St. Stephen), August 3rd, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy), Etching; second state of two (Lieure)
Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L’Année 
Libro del Compendio della vita dei santi
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Apparuit humanitas.
Kindness appeared.
Titus 3.4
Data mihi ius sepulchri vobiscum.
give me the right of a burying place with you.
Genesis 23.4

Modern Hagiography

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

La vie des saints

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the 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.

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

Medieval Hagiography

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Warburg Iconographic Index Database

San Lorenzo fuori le mura (depiction of story in narthex frescoes, photo album with details of each scene)

Music

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant