5 August – Saint Mary ad Nives

Founding of Santa Maria Maggiore by Matthias Grünewald
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Cogitavi ut aedificarem domum, in qua requiesceret Arca.
I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord might rest.
1 Paralipomenon 28.2
Elegi locum istum mihi.
I have chosen this place to myself.
2 Paralipomenon 7.12

Modern Mariology

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.

Anecdotes and Incidents: Ecclesiastical and Religious 

Legends of the Blessed Virgin 

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

Tradition in Action

“Santa Maria ad Nives” by Bede Camm.

Verses from the Ave Maria by Anonymous. 

Verses from the Ave Maria by Richard Howley.

Brevarium RomanumLatin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (SmarthistoryColumbia University Art Atlas)

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Music

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Devotions

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

Meditations for the Use of the clergy for Every Day in the Year:  On the Gospels for the Sundays, Volume 3 by Angelo Antonio Scotti.

Miraculously cured from blindness: young woman travels to Rome to thank Our Lady