9 February – Saint Alto

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ca. 1500
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
BSB Clm 2939
Bavaria Sancta, Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek — 2 Th L 65
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler (5 September).

Lives of the Irish Saints by John O’Hanlon.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Altomünster Abbey

1489 Cover of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Clm 2939 (above)

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index

123 Saint Alto, Saint Bridget and the Founders of the Mariamunster, c. 1500, NGA, DC
124 Saint Alto, c. 1500, NGA, DC (above)

Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – couteau, fontaine.