Quae est ista, quae progeditur quasi aurora?
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning?
Canticles 6.9
Sicut lux aurorae oriente sole.
As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth.
2 Kings 23.4
Modern Mariology
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.
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.
Our Lady’s Feasts by Sister Mary Jean Dorcy.
Sermons for Children’s Masses, According to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti.
Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.
The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
“For Our Lady’s Nativity” by Hugh Francis Blunt.
Medieval Mariology
The Golden Legend (and illustrations)
Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.
Art & Architecture
POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
A Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts
Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.
Menologion of Basil II (about)
1306, Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
1365, Giovanni da Milano, Rinuccini Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence
1433, Michele Gambono, Mascoli Chapel, San Marco, Venice
1435, Paolo Uccello, Duomo, Prato
1440, Master of the Osservanza
1440s, Giovanni Francesco da Rimini
1490, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Capella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
1514, Andrea del Sarto, Church of Santissima Annunzianta in Florence
1517, Baccio Bandinelli, Santa Casa, Loreto
1520, Follower of John Rambouts
1524, Lorenzo Lotto, San Michele al Pozzo Bianco, Bergamo
1611, Guido Reni, Cappella dell’Annunziata, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
1645, Le Nain Brothers, Notre Dame de Paris
Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. Jameson (Houghton Mifflin, 1897).
Sacred Symbols in Art by Elizabeth Edwards Goldsmith.
Music
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Nativité de la Vierge, “Sicut spina rosam” H.309
Devotions
Novena for Our Lady’s Nativity in the Raccolta
Heortology: A History Of The Christian Festivals From Their Origin To The Present Day by Heinrich Kellner.
Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays
Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon.
Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.
Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon.
Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year with an Appendix of Meditations for the Festivals of Various Saints by Augustin Maria Ilg.
Nihil sub sole novum 