
Pestis valde gravis.
A very grievous murrain.
Exodus 9.3
Ego sum pastor bonus – veni, ut vitam habeant.
I am the good shepherd – I am come that they may have life.
John 10.10-11
Modern Hagiography
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.
Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year by Henry Sebastian Bowden.
Stories of the Saints for Children [First Series] by Mary Seymour.
Lives of the Saints for Children by Theodor Berthold.
Memorials of the Blessed: A Series of Short Lives of the Saints by Charles B. Fairbanks.
Anecdotes and Incidents: Ecclesiastical and Religious
The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
“Hymn to St. Charles Borromeo”
Early Modern Hagiography
The Life Of St Charles Borromeo: Cardinal Archbishop Of Milan, Volume 1 by Giovanni Pietro Giussano – volume I & volume II.
Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.
Art & Architecture
Catalogo generale dei beni culturali
POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
A Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts
St Carlo Borromeo Adoring Christ (ca. 1610)
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
San Carlos Borromeo by Luca Giordano (ca. 1702)
1611-1612 Painting in Chiesa di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1640 Sculpture
The Apotheosis of Saint Charles Borromeo (1682)
St Carlo Borromeo Distributing Alms to the Poor (ca. 1680)
Painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1767-1769)
St Charles Borromeo Administers the Sacrament to the Plague-Infected (1751-1754)
Saint Charles Borromeo Handing out Alms to the People (1853)
Life of St. Charles Borromeo (Google Exhibition)
Post-Biblical Saints Art Index


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.
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.
Customs & Devotions
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.







